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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A voluntary fast undertaken as a means of political protest, as by a prisoner.
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- noun a
fast undertaken as a means ofprotest , often by aprisoner
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- noun a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest
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