Definitions for refrain

refrain re·frain

Spelling: [ri-freyn]
IPA: /rɪˈfreɪn/

Refrain is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in refrain (aefinrr).

Definitions for refrain

noun

  1. a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus.
  2. Music. a musical setting for the refrain of a poem. any melody. the principal, recurrent section of a rondo.

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to curb.

verb (used without object)

  1. to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from):

Origin of refrain

1300-50; Middle English refreinen Old French refrener Latin refrēnāre to bridle, equivalent to re- re- + frēn(um) bridle + -āre infinitive suffix

Examples for refrain

Or “you give us Keystone, and we may refrain from throwing the world financial markets into turmoil.”

Texas Senator Ted Cruz wove a refrain into his speech that “morning is coming.”

These mince pies may be eaten by persons who refrain from meat in Lent.

I could not refrain from whispering, "Don't cry—I am alive."

I will refrain from going there—although, I must say, I am fighting a powerful gut feeling.

I am free to resume my interrupted flight of fancy, but I refrain.

Notwithstanding her firm determination to forget him, she could not refrain from questioning them about him.

It offered to refrain from new sanctions only if the Kremlin controlled the rebels.

However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

He could not refrain from showing his satisfaction with Evelyn.

Word Value for refrain
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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