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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fast \Fast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fasted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Fasting}.] [AS. f[ae]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG.
fast[=e]n, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw fasta, Dan. faste, Goth.
fastan to keep observe, fast and prob. to E. fast firm.]
1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole
or in part to go hungry.
Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
--Milton.
2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to
abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the
mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of
grief, or humiliation and penitence.
Thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 Sam.
xii. 21.
{Fasting day}, a fast day a day of fasting.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fasting
n : abstaining from food [syn: {fast}]
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