- present participle of fast.
fasting
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India's activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended a hunger strike after 26 days of fasting in support of youth-led protesters demanding education reforms.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
At the protest site in the capital Delhi, he began fasting on 28 June and has consumed nothing but salt and water since then, losing more than 9kg.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
One year after the intervention ended, both the early and late fasting groups had maintained significantly more weight loss than participants who continued eating across 12 hours or more each day.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
The late fasting group used an eight hour window beginning after 1:00 p.m.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
The radio announcer said Gandhi spent his birthday fasting and spinning yarn on his wheel.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
He wasted his body with fastings and watching.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
The reason was, that for all his fastings and penances, he was a lazy Camel, and he wanted to graze without the trouble of walking about.
From The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India by Crooke, William
In speaking of himself, he says he was “in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often.”
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert
The monk Anchin was young in years but old in holiness; he kept his body under by fastings and watchings and long prayers.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace
“In fastings and labours manifold, Did John in the wilderness toil of old, And so may peace be thine.”
From Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by Magdeburg, Matilda of
