refrain
അടക്കുവാൻ
definition
verb
she refrained from comment
stop oneself from doing something.
noun
These all seem to derive from the Folio text, but some may supplement it by accurately recording where breaks came between verses and refrains .
a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse.
example
In later years these words would become a familiar 'refrain' .
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it is boring; I must, however, warn you that the melodic 'refrain' is so soothing that, at times, you may find yourself being lulled to sleep.
Most people will be familiar with the 'refrain' of the song, ‘All I wanna do is have some fun.’
Since the referendum all leaders of the European Union's mainstream parties have repeated the same 'refrain' .
The 'refrain' goes, " living in the wild wild west".
The constant 'refrain' of both the corporations and their flunkeys in the union bureaucracy and the media is that there is no alternative but to comply with the agenda set by contemporary economic realities.
She sang a 'refrain' ; he sampled it electronically and ' sang ' it back using the keyboard.
Everywhere one heard the common 'refrain' : at last we have something to celebrate.
Dean's emphasis on Kennedy's prudence during the Cuban missile crisis was a constant 'refrain' of leading Democrats in late 2002.
We have heard the usual 'refrain' about big companies swallowing up small ones and limiting diversity.
This has been a constant 'refrain' from the Bush administration.
Amongst the journalists who responded to my queries, there was a constant 'refrain' : ‘what can I possibly do?’
Now, that's becoming almost a familiar 'refrain' when we're talking about the Defence Department.
And it gave Ice Cube a haunting 'refrain' in one of his angriest and best tracks.
"We can't just let him starve to death, " is a common 'refrain' heard from family members.
Mary J Blige has even changed the 'refrain' of the song, and sings, ‘No more war.’
Here the beat is constantly fluttered and redrawn, but somehow held together by the nearly anthemic melodic 'refrain' .
To show this really was meant as a band effort, we then get a jaunt through Honest Plain John's ‘Psycho Girl’ with it's jangly guitar 'refrain' and hypnotic chorus.
A constant 'refrain' from Australian political parties not only in the recent election campaign but for generations has been that Australia cannot afford more money for national defence.
For the moment, he is all but echoing the same 'refrain' .
The first song has the 'refrain' , ‘Dark is life, is death,’ and ends with the macabre image of an ape howling in a graveyard.
The guitars grow increasingly reckless and discordant to match the rising edge in Lee Ranaldo's voice before bursting into an anthemic 'refrain' bordering on anarchy.
At one point he then took out the aforementioned trumpet and played it with Satchmo-like raunch, singing the 'refrain' in between the lines of melody.
A constant 'refrain' in the media, for example, is that we in the West are the tireless champions of the powerless and oppressed, unbiased by self-interest.
Integration, integration, integration, is her constant 'refrain' .
For example, round is another word for a roundelay, which is a short simple song with a 'refrain' .
A constant 'refrain' is that Scotland should follow the lead set by Norway, a small, independent country made rich by direct control of its North Sea oil.
Loyalists are likely to dismiss the criticisms as a familiar 'refrain' from opponents who have never come to terms with his leadership.
The quatrain is followed by a couplet forming a 'refrain' , also with four stresses.
This is a constant 'refrain' in the liberal press.
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