Abstain vs Retai - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between abstain and retai

is that abstain is (transitive|reflexive|obsolete) keep or withhold oneself while retai is .

(en verb)

(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) Keep or withhold oneself.

Refrain from (something); hold one's self aloof; to forbear or keep from doing, especially an indulgence of the passions or appetites.

* Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt? - Shakespeare, Richard II, II-i

(obsolete) Fast.

Deliberately refrain from casting one's vote at a meeting where one is present.

* Not a few abstained from voting. -

(obsolete) Hinder; keep back; withhold.

* Whether he abstain men from marying [sic]. -

* (keep or withhold oneself) Followed by the word from' or ' of . * (refrain from something) Followed by the word from .

* deny oneself * forbear * forgo * give up * refrain * relinquish * withhold

* abstention

Retai has no English definition. It may be misspelled.