Entry Word: forbear

Function: verb

Meaning: to resist the temptation of <sheʼs old enough to make her own decisions, so we must forbear criticizing her taste in clothes>

Synonyms abstain (from), forgo (also forego), keep (from), refrain (from)

Related Words avoid, eschew, shun; check, constrain, curb, inhibit; deny, refuse, withhold; buck, combat, fight

Near Antonyms capitulate, knuckle under, submit, surrender

Antonyms give in (to), succumb (to), yield (to)