To refrain from something is to stop from doing something. For instance, I might refrain from commenting on my friend's lack of fashion sense.
To "refrain" from something means you stop yourself from doing it. I "refrained" from dancing.. You didn't do it basically :/
ahimsa
Wanton basically means recklessly. So therefore, your statement means: To refrain (try not to) recklessly offend/hurt someone.
The word abstinence means to refrain from participating in a particular behavior.
The words "refrain" and "attain" have no direct relation and do not have opposite meanings. "Refrain" means to hold back or avoid doing something, while "attain" means to achieve or reach a goal or desired outcome. Therefore, they pertain to different actions and concepts.
Please refrain from using your cell phone during the meeting.
It means- don't spit in your hat
Refrain, desist, withold, withdraw, deny.
The only legal means of accomplishing this is to refrain from the use of illegal substances.
In music, a refrain is an interlude that is neither the chorus nor a verse, like a bridge. 'Arbitrary' means that it does not relate to anything previous. I assume you're referring to the Bud advert here, where the band slow the chorus down and use only percussion instruments after the beardy guy tells them to 'throw in an arbtrary refrain' ? Whilst not being entirely arbitrary, it is indeed a refrain.
There is no refrain
refrain is a sentence that comes again and again in poem fore eg in this poem brooke _for men may come and m en may go but i go on forever