Difference between Refrain and Forbear

REFRAIN vs FORBEAR: NOUN

A burden or chorus recurring at regular intervals in the course of a song or ballad, usually at the end of each stanza.
The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza.
The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition.
The musical phrase or figure to which the burden of a song is set. It has the same relation to the main part of the tune that the burden has to the main text of the song.
The part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
An after-taste or -odor; that impression which lingers on the sense: as, the refrain of a Cologne water, of a perfume, of a wine.

To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.

To abstain from.
To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.

Restrain, Beware, Resist, Withhold, Eschew, Deter, Cease, Avoid, Prevent, Stop, Forebear, Chorus, Forbear, Abstain, Desist

Arbitrate, Desisted, Enjoining, Acquiesce, Entreat, Avoid, Retracting, Resist, Withhold, Forgo, Abstain, Restrain, Desist, Refrain, Forebear

Keep, Avoided, Restrain, Beware, Resist, Withhold, Eschew, Deter, Cease, Avoid, Prevent, Stop, Chorus, Abstain, Desist

Terminate, Cease, Impleading, Estop, Subrogated, Foreclose, Derogating, Acquiesce, Entreat, Avoid, Resist, Withhold, Abstain, Restrain, Desist

Hitler to refrain from interfering with my officialfunctions.
Refrain from personal issue conversations in the workplace.
To refrain from doing something because of fear.
Refrain from touching your eyes, nose and mouth.
Damage for every AOO you refrain from taking.
You shall refrain from any use of alcohol.
Focus on understanding and refrain from giving advice.
Please refrain from purchasing if you are nervous.
If everybody is to refrain from killing that violinist, then everybody must refrain from doing a great many different sorts of things.
Refrain from divulging any Refrain from making wrong employees or customers.

My dearest Macready, I cannot forbear this closing word.
The Lord shall work His will, so jar forbear.
This is too much; Forbear, for shame, my lords.
And I cannot forbear to add thus much more.
We were all to forbear unpacking in the meanwhile.
Forbear, I pray, and trouble me no more.
My lord, it were your duty to forbear.
Forbear not togive him due and necessary correction.
Buckeye would again forbear collection of the debt.
Again, I think there is the issue of the congruence of the incentives to foreclose, not foreclose, forbear, not forbear.