Self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink.
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Examples for "abstinent "
Examples for "abstinent "
1 We tested abstinent alcoholics and control subjects in a double-blind two-session design.
2 Are there more benefits to remaining sexually abstinent than one would think?
3 Hemodynamic, physiological, and behavioral parameters were compared between sated and abstinent scans.
4 Of the other drugs examined only phenoxybenzamine reduced diarrhea in morphine - abstinent rats.
5 The delicate, the abstinent , the reticent graces were his in the heroic degree.
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