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FASTING

Pronunciation (US):

• FASTING (noun)
The noun FASTING has 1 sense:

1. abstaining from food

Familiarity information: FASTING used as a noun is very rare.

• FASTING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Abstaining from food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fast; fasting

Hypernyms ("fasting" is a kind of...):

abstinence (act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fasting"):

diet; dieting (the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods))

hunger strike (a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest)

Ramadan ((Islam) a fast (held from sunrise to sunset) that is carried out during the Islamic month of Ramadan)

"Give the Devil his due."
(English proverb)
"Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart."
(Native American proverb, Omaha)
"Older than you by a day, more knowledgeable than you by a year."
(Arabic proverb)
"Cleanliness is half your health."
(Czech proverb)

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