Usually means: Abstaining from food for period.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. fasting: Merriam-Webster
  2. fasting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fasting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fasting, fasting: Wordnik
  5. fasting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fasting: Wiktionary
  7. Fasting, fasting: Dictionary.com
  8. fasting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Fasting (Catholic), Fasting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Fasting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. fasting: Rhymezone
  12. Fasting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. fasting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. Fasting: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. fasting: FreeDictionary.org
  16. fasting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. fasting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fasting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fasting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. fasting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Fasting: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. fasting: Medical dictionary
  6. Fasting: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fasting: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fasting: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fasting)

noun:  Abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food.
noun:  Abstinence from food, limiting caloric intake, for medical or health reasons, dieting.

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