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View definitions for fasting

fasting

noun as in fast

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noun as in hunger strike

noun as in watching one's weight

verb as in calorie counting

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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.

From BBC

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."

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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