絶食

ぜっしょく【絶食】

fasting

〖U〗絶食すること.

¶ → 絶食する

¶2日間の～

a two-day fast

¶ → 絶食療法

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ぜっしょく【絶食】

fasting; a fast; abstinence from food; 【医】 abrosia; nothing by mouth (略: NBM); nothing per os (略: NPO).

～する fast; abstain from food; 〔宗教上の〕 perform a fast.

●絶食して死ぬ starve oneself to death

・絶食して治す cure 《an illness》 by fasting [not eating]

・前の日絶食したので非常に空腹だった. I had fasted [hadn't eaten anything (at all)] the previous day, so I was extremely hungry.

●絶食後はじめて食事をする start eating again; break one's fast.

絶食療法 a fasting [starvation, hunger] cure; fasting treatment.