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2 definitions found 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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