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HUNGER STRIKE

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• HUNGER STRIKE (noun)
The noun HUNGER STRIKE has 1 sense:

1. a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest

Familiarity information: HUNGER STRIKE used as a noun is very rare.

• HUNGER STRIKE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("hunger strike" is a kind of...):

fast; fasting (abstaining from food)

nonviolence; nonviolent resistance; passive resistance (peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate)

"Why pay for the cow when the milk is free?"
(English proverb)
"Patient without any pain, the dog is lame when it wants to"
(Breton proverb)
"Blood can never turn into water."
(Arabic proverb)
"He who kills with bullets will die by bullets."
(Corsican proverb)

Useful links:
Pronunciation of nonviolence
Meaning of nonviolent resistance
Pronunciation of passive resistance
Meaning of fast
Pronunciation of fasting

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