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Main Entry: fast
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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Concept: Fasting.
Category: 4. Moral practice
Synonyms:
-nouns
fasting; xerophagy; famishment, starvation., fast, jour maigre; fast day, banyan day; Lent, quadragesima; Ramadan, Ramazan; spare diet, meager diet; lenten diet, lenten entertainment; soupe maigre, short commons, Barmecide feast; short rations.
-verbs
fast, starve, clem, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey; make two bites of a cherry.
-adjectives
lenten, quadragesimal; unfed; starved; half-starved; fasting; hungry.
Antonyms: gluttony
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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
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
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