Roget's Thesaurus

#956. Fasting

Nouns

fasting; xerophagy; famishment, starvation. fast, jour maigre [Fr.]; fast day, banyan day; Lent, quadragesima; Ramadan, Ramazan; spare diet, meager diet; lenten diet, lenten entertainment; soupe maigre [Fr.], short commons, Barmecide feast; short rations.

Verbs

fast, starve, clem, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey; make two bites of a cherry.

Adjectives

lenten, quadragesimal; unfed; starved etc. v.; half-starved; fasting etc. v.; hungry etc. 865.