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fasting
noun as in abstinence
noun as in fast
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in hunger strike
Weak matches
noun as in watching one's weight
verb as in calorie counting
Example Sentences
It culminated in a ritual bath in the sea, three days of fasting and a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Eleusis outside of Athens during a nine-day festival in early fall.
This 10-day stretch ends with Yom Kippur, a day of fasting, repentance and commemoration of the dead.
The three-day Jivitputrika festival celebrates children's wellbeing every year and is also marked with mothers fasting for them.
I don’t do intermittent fasting.
According to Korin Miller with Food & Wine, the study "analyzed data from two small groups of people — 10 who had a beverage with 30 grams of the artificial sweetener erythritol and 10 who had a drink with 30 grams of sugar after fasting overnight."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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