Fasts Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Fasts

stables
Relating to a chemical compound that does not easily decompose or change into other compounds. Water is an example of a stable compound.
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secures
To make sure or certain; guarantee; ensure, as with a pledge
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refrains
Refrain is defined as to keep from doing, feeling or saying something.
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looses
To make less strict; relax:
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fleets
(Naut.) To change the position of (a rope, pulley block, etc.)
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abstains
The definition of abstain is choosing to not do something.
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diets
Diet means to change food intake to lose weight.
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starves
(Intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
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Antonyms for Fasts

gluttonies
Excess in eating or drinking.
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feasts
A rich and elaborate meal; banquet
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binges
A spree or bout of unrestrained imbibing or eating
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stuffs
To eat too much or too quickly
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eats
(Informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
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gorges
To eat gluttonously or devour greedily.
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eatings
Food, comestibles
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stuffings
Food put into the cavity of a piece of meat or a vegetable that has been hollowed out.
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Fasts Sentence Examples

  • Closer akin to certain Western forms of dissidence from traditional Catholicism, though of native growth, are the Molokani or Molokans, so called popularly because they continue to drink milk (moloko) during fasts.

  • The numerous fasts of the national church prescribe a fish diet on many days in the Fishing.

  • The new temple heralded a new future; the mournful fasts commemorative of Jerusalem's disasters would become feasts; Yahweh had left the Temple at the fall of Jerusalem, but had now returned to sanctify it with his presence; the city had purged its iniquity and was fit once more to become the central sanctuary.

  • It is worn, too, on the vigils of fasts, Ember Days and days of intercession, on the Feast of Holy Innocents (if on a week-day), at litanies, penitential processions, and at other than solemn benedictions and consecrations.

  • Abjuring pomps and vanities, its citizens observed the ascetic regime of the cloister; half the year was devoted to abstinence and few dared to eat meat on the fasts ordained by Savonarola.

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