abjuring, abstaining (from), forbearing, forgoing(also foregoing), keeping (from), withholding (from)

avoiding, eschewing, shunningchecking, constraining, curbing, inhibitingdenying, refusing, rejecting, repudiatingbucking, combating(or combatting), fighting

bowing (to), giving in (to), submitting (to), succumbing (to), surrendering (to), yielding (to)

acquiescing (to), capitulating, conceding (to), knuckling under (to)