intr.v., fast·ed, fast·ing, fasts.
- To abstain from food.
- To eat very little or abstain from certain foods, especially as a religious discipline.
- The act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food.
- A period of such abstention or self-denial.
[Middle English fasten, from Old English fæstan.]
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