Check
Refrain
Refrain verb - Resist doing something.
Check and refrain are semantically related in do without topic. Sometimes you can use "Check" instead a verb "Refrain".
Nearby Words: refrained, refraining
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| time | check time | refrain time |
Both words in one sentence
- Check. Having to put up with her easy defeat courtesy of Tia who was asking her to calm down and listen to her (and Grolla who was suggesting her to follow her friend Trau's example and therefore refrain from actually helping Iris cause as much mayhem and destruction as possible for fun)?
Source: Butt Monkey / Video Games
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Refrain and Check. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/refrain
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