Engage in and Refrain

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Refrain and engage in are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Refrain" instead a verb "Engage in".

Refrain verb - Resist doing something.

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Engage in and refrain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Engage in" instead a verb "Refrain".

Nearby Words: refrained, refraining

But it's against Hell's nature to refrain from making the mortals miserable... Deadpan Snarker: Screwtape doesn't usually crack jokes but he does occasionally engage in sarcasm.

Source: Literature / The Screwtape Letters
Refrain from doing more harm than necessary (or that they think is necessary), do not engage in prolonged torture, and generally outright don't use methods like rape altogether.

Source: Exalted Torturer
Desertion is usually punishable by death, so these people have no more incentive to refrain from other capital offenses, like murder, and every reason to engage in them if they think you'll turn them in.

Source: Dangerous Deserter

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