ABSTAINING

Definition: ABSTAINING

ABSTAINING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Abstain

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ABSTAINING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Crosswords: ABSTAINING

English words defined with "ABSTAINING": abstention, abstinence ♦ celibacy, celibate, chaste, chastity, continent ♦ fast, fasting ♦ nonviolent ♦ sexual abstention, sobriety ♦ teetotaling, teetotalism, temperance. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ABSTAINING": Benedictines. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The New Celibacy: Why More Men and Women Are Abstaining from Sex--And Enjoying It (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Horace Greeley	Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		For example, cirrhosis caused by alcohol abuse is treated by abstaining from alcohol. (references)
		Obvious steps include quitting smoking, losing weight if necessary, abstaining from alcohol, and making dietary changes to reduce the amount of salt and fat consumed. (references)
		Through its emphasis on short-term behavioral goals, individualized drug counseling helps the patient develop coping strategies and tools for abstaining from drug use and then maintaining abstinence. (references)
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	From the general policy and course of proceeding observed by the allied powers in regard to this contest it is inferred that they will confine their interposition to the expression of their sentiments, abstaining from the application of force.
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"ABSTAINING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ABSTAINING" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	100%	30	63,341

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ABSTAINING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�' (Abstain, Abstained, Abstention). (various references)

French		abstenant. (various references)

German		enthaltend (containing, continuing). (various references)

Italian		comprendente (incl., including, inclusive). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		茶断ち (giving up or abstaining from tea). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ちゃ� ち (giving up or abstaining from tea). (various references)

Pig Latin		abstainingay.(various references)

Spanish		abstinente (abstained, abstainer, abstinent, abstinently). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự kiêng khem (abstinence, abstinency). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"ABSTAINING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: obstaining. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ABSTAINING" (pronounced ubstā"ning or abstā"ning)
6	-s t ā" n i ng	staining, sustaining.
5	-t ā" n i ng	ascertaining, attaining, containing, detaining, entertaining, maintaining, obtaining, pertaining, retaining.
4	-ā" n i ng	campaigning, caning, chaining, complaining, constraining, disdaining, draining, explaining, feigning, gaining, ordaining, overtraining, raining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, remaining, restraining, retraining, straining, training, waning.
3	-n i ng	abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, assigning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, envisioning, evening, examining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, opening, opining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, rejoining, relearning, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning.
6	-s t ā" n i ng	staining, sustaining.
5	-t ā" n i ng	ascertaining, attaining, containing, detaining, entertaining, maintaining, obtaining, pertaining, retaining.
4	-ā" n i ng	campaigning, caning, chaining, complaining, constraining, disdaining, draining, explaining, feigning, gaining, ordaining, overtraining, raining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, remaining, restraining, retraining, straining, training, waning.
3	-n i ng	abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, assigning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, envisioning, evening, examining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, opening, opining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, rejoining, relearning, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-g-i-i-n-n-s-t"
	-2 letters: antibias, ignatias, sainting, staining.
	-3 letters: abasing, abating, abstain, against, anginas, antings, antisag, baiting, banians, basting, biasing, bisnaga, ignatia, saining, staning.
	-4 letters: abatis, angina, anting, baaing, banian, baning, basing, bating, binits, biting, gainst, giants, isatin, saning, satang, sating, siting, taigas, tibias, tining.
	-5 letters: again, agist, angas, angst, annas, antas, antis, baits, bangs, banns, basin, binit, bints, gains, gaits, giant, gnats, intis, naans, nabis, nanas, sabin, saiga, saint, sanga, satin, staig, stain, stang, sting, taiga, tains, tangs, tibia, tings.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-g-i-i-n-n-s-t"
	+2 letters: bastinadoing.
	+4 letters: cabinetmakings, substantiating.
	+5 letters: suborganization.
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