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Today's word is abstain.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abstain

Did You Know?

If you "abstain," you're consciously and usually with effort choosing to "hold back" from doing something that you would like to do. So it's no surprise that "abstain" traces back through Middle English and Anglo-French to the Latin abstinre, which combines the prefix ab- ("from, away, off") with "tenre," a Latin verb meaning "to hold." "Tenre" has many offspring in English - other descendants include "contain," "detain," "maintain," "obtain," "pertain," "retain," and "sustain," as well as some words that don't end in "-tain," such as "tenacious." "Abstain," like many of its cousins, has been used by English speakers since at least the 14th century.

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Was laying naked on the couch eating Cheetos and got an orange abstain

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