Meaning

3 senses
  1. (intransitive)To practice religious abstinence, especially from food.

    1677 George Fox, The Hypocrites Fast and Feast Not God's Holy Day, p. 8 (paraphrasing Matthew 6:16-18). And is it not the Command of Christ, that in their Fast they should not appear unto men to fast?

  2. (intransitive)To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet.

    abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons

  3. (transitive)To cause (a person or animal) to abstain, especially from eating.

    fasten, hungern

    пости́тьсяpostítʹsja, попости́тьсяpopostítʹsja, голода́тьgolodátʹ

    по́сти́тиpóstýty, по́сти́тисяpóstýtysja, по́стуватиpóstuvaty

    abstain from eating

Examples

4060 sentences
  1. I'm tired of eating fast food.

    Я втомився від фаст-фуду. — deniko

    ruЯ устал от фаст-фуда. — afyodor

    deIch habe es satt, Fastfood zu essen. — MUIRIEL

  2. Run as fast as you can.

    Біжи якомога швидше. — deniko

    ruБеги как можно быстрее. — marafon

    deRenn so schnell, wie du kannst. — MUIRIEL

  3. How fast does this train run?

    А цей потяг швидко їде? — aandrusiak

    ruКак быстро едет этот поезд? — naXa

    deWie schnell fährt dieser Zug? — Wolf

  4. My watch is ten minutes fast.

    Мій годинник поспішає на десять хвилин. — deniko

    ruМои часы спешат на десять минут. — Wezel

    deMeine Uhr geht zehn Minuten vor. — MUIRIEL

  5. I ran as fast as possible.

    Я побіг якомога швидше. — deniko

    ruЯ бежала изо всех сил. — Wezel

    deIch rannte so schnell ich konnte. — MUIRIEL

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to abstain from food:
Русский
By meaning 1
to abstain from food:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to abstain from food:

Origin

From Middle English fasten, from Old English fæstan (“to fast”), from Proto-West Germanic

From Middle English fasten, from Old English fæstan (“to fast”), from Proto-West Germanic *fastēn, from

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Forms

fasts, fasting, fasted, fasted
Base formfast · to fast
3rd person singularfasts
Present participlefasting
Past simplefasted
Past participlefasted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfast
he, she, itfasts

Past simpleLesson

all personsfasted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave fasted
he, she, ithas fasted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fast

Word family

5 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • as fast as
  • ran as fast
  • faster at doing
  • run faster than
  • run faster
  • drive too fast
  • fast runner
  • can run faster
  • be faster at
  • too fast for
  • much faster than
  • is a fast

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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