fasted

Verb

fast (third-person singular simple present fasts, present participle fasting, simple past and past participle fasted)

1. (intransitive) To practice religious abstinence, especially from food.
   • Thou didst fast and weep for the child.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 12:21
2. (intransitive) To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet.
   • The ideal would be to fast in a situation where you are not tempted by food1977, Suza Norton, “To get the most benefit from fasting use a body-building diet”, in Yoga Journal, Jul-Aug 1977, p. 40
3. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to abstain, especially from eating.
   • At 11 weeks of age, all mice were fasted overnight and underwent gallbladder ultrasonography to determine ejection fraction.Walker et al. (2007)

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