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2. consuming, consumption, devouring, engorgement, eating up, gobbling up; incorporation, incorporating, assimilation, assimilating, appropriation, appropriating, embodiment, embodying, inosculation; engulfment, engulfing, inundation, inundating, swallowing up; destroying, overwhelming, overcoming.
3. preoccupation, prepossession, obsession, engrossment, rapt orcomplete attention, deep orprofound thought; concentration, occupation, monopolization; involvement, immersion; thoughtfulness, pensiveness, intentness, engagement; abstraction, abstractedness, musing, reverie, trance, brown study. abstain , abstainer , abstemious , abstemiousness , abstention ,
abstinence, n.1. teetotalism, nephalism, temperance, sobriety, soberness; prohibition, blue-ribbonism; Rechabitism.
2. abstention, nonindulgence, abstemiousness, moderation, continence, celibacy, fasting; Puritanism, austerity, self-mortification, self-deprivation; asceticism, self-denial, self-abnegation; refrainment, refraining, forbearance, desistance; restraint, selfrestraint, restraining from.
3. giving up, Inf.swearing off, renouncing, renouncement, renunciation; letting alone, keeping one's hands off, turning aside from, holding off, resisting, resistance; checking, check, curb, curbing, curtail, curtailment, cutting down on; controlling, control, selfcontrol, withholding; suppressing; suppression, repressing, repression; refusal, declining, rebuff, rejection, spurning; avoidance, eschewing, shunning.
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Biochemistry
Discoverer/Inventor : jan baptista van helmont (belgium)
Year : 1648 .. More >>
