intransitive. To refrain from drinking alcohol, to be a teetotaller. Also with from.
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释义 | the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > totally abstain from alcohol (6) abstain1784 intransitive. To refrain from drinking alcohol, to be a teetotaller. Also with from. to put (also keep) in the pin1827 figurative (chiefly Scottish). to put (also keep) in the pin: to refrain from drinking alcohol. Now rare. to take (also sign, keep) the pledge1833 With the. A solemn undertaking to abstain from alcohol (as made by members of a temperance movement). Also the temperance pledge, the total abstine… teetotal1883 (intransitive) to practise or advocate total abstinence. to take the blue ribbon1884 Originally U.S. A blue ribbon worn as a sign that a person has taken a pledge of temperance, or that he or she belongs to a temperance movement… teetotalize1898 (transitive) to convert to teetotalism; intransitive, to practise teetotalism, to abstain. |
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