fasting

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Definition

1. Noun:
   • The act or practice of abstaining from all or some kinds of food or drink, especially as a religious observance or for health reasons. It refers to the voluntary abstinence from consuming food for a defined period.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • She observes a 24-hour fasting every month for spiritual reasons.
  • Intermittent fasting has become a popular dietary approach for weight management.
  • The religious holiday involves prayer and fasting.

Advanced Usage

• "to break one's fasting": to end a period of fasting by eating food.
  • They gathered at sunset to break their fasting together.

Variants and Related Words

• Fast (verb): to abstain from all or some kinds of food or drink.
  • Many people fast during the holy month.
• Faster (noun): a person who is fasting.
  • The faster drank only water for three days.

Synonyms

• Abstinence: the practice of restraining oneself from indulging in something, typically food or alcohol.
• Starvation (Note: This typically implies a severe, often involuntary, lack of food, unlike the voluntary nature of fasting).

Related Phrases

• Water fasting: a type of fast where only water is consumed.
  • He undertook a supervised water fasting for detoxification.
• Fasting period: the specific duration during which one fasts.
  • The fasting period begins at dawn and ends at dusk.

Học thuật

Noun

1. abstaining from food

Từ đồng nghĩa

• fast