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fasting 音標拼音: [f'æstɪŋ] a. 禁食的
n. 禁食 禁食的禁食 fasting n 1: abstaining from food [ synonym: { fast}, { fasting}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Thou didst fast and weep for the child. -- 2 Sam. xii. 21. [ 1913 Webster] { Fasting day}, a fast day; a day of fasting. [ 1913 Webster] 59 Moby Thesaurus words for " fasting": Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism, Lenten, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, cold purgatorial fires, dog- hungry, empty, eremitism, famished, famishing, flagellation, hair shirt, half- famished, half- starved, hungering, hungry, lustration, maceration, mendicantism, monachism, monasticism, mortification, peckish, penance, penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, pinched with hunger, purgation, purgatory, puritanism, quadragesimal, ravening, ravenous, repentance, rigor, sackcloth and ashes, self- denial, self- mortification, sharp- set, starved, starving, uneating, unfed, unfilled, voluntary poverty, voracious, wolfish
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