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Exact Match:

refrain

the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers

resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"

Synonyms:

• PS,
• Parthian shot,
• Spenserian stanza,
• abandon,
• abort,
• abstain,
• abstain from,
• addendum,
• afterthought,
• air,
• anacrusis,
• antistrophe,
• appendix,
• aria,
• arrest,
• avoid,
• back matter,
• bass passage,
• belay,
• bis,
• bob,
• book,
• bourdon,
• bridge,
• burden,
• cadence,
• cancel,
• canto,
• cantus,
• cease,
• chant,
• check,
• chorus,
• coda,
• codicil,
• colophon,
• conclusion,
• consequence,
• constrain,
• continuance,
• continuation,
• couplet,
• curb,
• cut it out,
• descant,
• desist,
• development,
• discontinue,
• dispense with,
• distich,
• ditto,
• division,
• do without,
• double take,
• drop it,
• dying words,
• end,
• envoi,
• epilogue,
• epode,
• eschew,
• exposition,
• figure,
• folderol,
• follow-through,
• follow-up,
• forbear,
• forgo,
• give over,
• give up,
• halt,
• harmonic close,
• have done with,
• heptastich,
• hexastich,
• hold,
• hold aloof from,
• hold back,
• hold off,
• inhibit,
• interlude,
• intermezzo,
• interrupt,
• introductory phrase,
• keep,
• keep back,
• keep from,
• keep in hand,
• knock it off,
• last words,
• lay,
• lay off,
• leave off,
• let alone,
• let go by,
• line,
• measure,
• melodia,
• melodic line,
• melody,
• monostich,
• movement,
• musical phrase,
• musical sentence,
• never touch,
• not touch,
• not use,
• note,
• octastich,
• octave,
• octet,
• ornament,
• ottava rima,
• part,
• parting shot,
• pass up,
• passage,
• pentastich,
• period,
• peroration,
• phrase,
• postface,
• postfix,
• postlude,
• postscript,
• quatrain,
• quit,
• refrain from,
• relinquish,
• renounce,
• repeat,
• repetend,
• reprise,
• reserve,
• resolution,
• response,
• restrain,
• rhyme royal,
• ritornello,
• save,
• scrub,
• second thought,
• section,
• septet,
• sequel,
• sequela,
• sequelae,
• sequelant,
• sequent,
• sequitur,
• sestet,
• sextet,
• shun,
• solo,
• solo part,
• song,
• soprano part,
• spare,
• stand aloof from,
• stanza,
• statement,
• stave,
• stay,
• stop,
• strain,
• strophe,
• subscript,
• suffix,
• supplement,
• swan song,
• syllable,
• tag,
• tailpiece,
• tercet,
• terminate,
• terza rima,
• tetrastich,
• treble,
• triplet,
• tristich,
• tune,
• tutti,
• tutti passage,
• undersong,
• variation,
• verse,
• waive,
• withhold