REFRAIN


Meaning of REFRAIN in English

I.

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ constant

▪ common , familiar

Complaints about school food have become a familiar ~.

VERB + REFRAIN

▪ sing , take up

The choir's sopranos took up the ~.

▪ echo , repeat

▪ hear

I kept hearing the same ~.

REFRAIN + VERB

▪ go

Can you remember how the ~ goes?

II.

verb

ADVERB

▪ carefully , deliberately

He deliberately ~ed from expressing his opinion on the matter.

▪ wisely

▪ barely

Priscilla could barely ~ from clapping her hands together.

PREPOSITION

▪ from

I ~ed from laughing.

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