| 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 |
| Concept: | Fasting. |
| Category: | 4. Moral practice |
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-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.
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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 |