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fast

noun [C]
 
 
/fɑːst/ US  /fæst/

Definition

a period of time when you eat no food: Hundreds of prisoners began a fast in protest about prison conditions.Diets and dieting
(Definition of fast noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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