to let be (dialect let-a-be; †also contracted labee, labbe). absol.

To go without or abstain from all or some kinds of food or drink; to live on a restricted diet. intransitive. In figurative and extended use, esp.…

Const. of of infinitive. To cease or refrain from, or from doing, something. Obsolete.

intransitive. To check or withhold oneself, to desist, refrain; to omit to do (something). Obsolete.

absol. and intransitive. To abstain, refrain. Const. to (also †but) with infinitive, also from, †for, †of.

intransitive. To stop oneself from doing or indulging in something; to refrain, forbear. Usually with from (also †fro).

To abstain or refrain from using, employing, exercising, etc.; to forbear, omit, or avoid the use or… In elliptical use: To refrain from doing…

intransitive. To delay or refrain from action. Also with infinitive. Obsolete.

to let alone (In Old English also lǽtan án, Middle English †let one.) absol.

(Now the usual sense.) intransitive. To stop oneself from doing something; to abstain, forbear. Also figurative.

intransitive. To desist, forbear, refrain. With from, to do, (Scottish) upon the action. Obsolete.

absol. in same sense. Obsolete.

hold (‥) hand. to hold one's hand: to stay or arrest one's hand in the act of doing something; hence gen. to refrain, forbear.

To abstain or refrain from using, employing, exercising, etc.; to forbear, omit, or avoid the use or… absol. To refrain from or forbear the use…

intransitive. To leave off, desist, stop, cease from some action (finally or temporarily). (Cf. supersede… transferred. To forbear, omit (to do…

transitive. To draw away or aside, withdraw, divert (from an action or undertaking); reflexive and intransitive. To withdraw, refrain. Obsolete.

intransitive (for reflexive). To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hesitate.

(for reflexive) To restrain oneself, refrain, forbear; to cease, stop, give over. Often in imperative as an exclamation: = Stop! archaic.

intransitive. To move away or withdraw and take up a standing position some distance from a group, activity, or situation. Also figurative: to…

To give in, submit, surrender (obsolete); to check oneself, refrain, ‘pull up’ (U.S. colloquial).

To hold oneself back or refrain from doing something. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. With infinitive as complement. To scruple or hesitate to do something. Chiefly in negative constructions. (e.g. he did not stickle to)…

intransitive. To keep oneself or remain off, away, or at a distance; to refrain from action; to delay.

slang (British and Irish English). To lose one's nerve; = to lose one's bottle at bottle, n.3 11; to… transitive in to bottle it.