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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go without food |
| Synonyms: | abstain, deny oneself, diet, famish, forbear, go hungry, not eat, refrain, starve |
| Antonyms: | eat, glut, gorge, stuff |
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| Main Entry: | abstain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hold back from doing |
| Synonyms: | abjure, abnegate, avoid, cease, constrain, curb, decline, deny oneself, do without, eschew, evade, fast, fence-sit, forbear, forgo, give the go by, give up, go on the wagon, keep from, pass, pass up, quit, refrain, refuse, renounce, shun, sit on one's hands, sit on the fence, sit out, spurn, starve, stop, take the cure, take the pledge, withhold |
| Antonyms: | indulge, use |
| Main Entry: | abstinence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restraint from desires, especially physical desires |
| Synonyms: | abnegation, abstaining, abstemiousness, asceticism, avoidance, chastity, continence, fasting, forbearance, frugality, moderation, refraining, renunciation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, soberness, sobriety, teetotalism, temperance |
| Antonyms: | drunkenness, excess, indulgence, intemperance, intoxication, revelry, self-indulgence |
Example Sentences
- The fasting glucose tolerance test is the simplest and fastest way to measure blood glucose and diagnose diabetes.
- But the movement kept going unabated through the fasting month.
- He prepares for this through fasting and prayer but it will take several hours for the procession to reach the temple.
| Main Entry: | demonstrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | display or take public |
| Synonyms: | action for a cause exhibit, fast, lie in, manifest, march, march on, parade, picket, protest, rally, sit in, stage walkout, strike, walkout |
| Main Entry: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abstain from food |
| Synonyms: | count calories, eat sparingly, fall off, fast, go without, lose weight, reduce, skinny down, slim, slim down, starve, tighten belt, watch weight |
| Antonyms: | gorge, indulge |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abstention from eating |
| Synonyms: | abstinence, diet, fasting, xerophagy |
| Antonyms: | eating, feast, gluttony, gorging, stuffing |
| Main Entry: | unbroken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | continuous, whole |
| Synonyms: | ceaseless, constant, deep, endless, entire, even, fast, incessant, intact, perfect, perpetual, profound, progressive, regular, solid, sound, successive, total, undisturbed, unimpaired, uninterrupted, unremitting, unruffled, untroubled |
| Antonyms: | broken, discontinuous, inconstant, intermittent, partial |
| Main Entry: | calorie counting |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | watching one's calories |
| Synonyms: | dieting, fasting, food abstinence, regimen, watching one's weight, weight-watching |
| Main Entry: | hunger strike |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fasting for a cause |
| Synonyms: | fasting, religious fasting, voluntary fast |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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