HUNGER STRIKE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("hunger strike" is a kind of...):

fast; fasting (abstaining from food)

nonviolence; nonviolent resistance; passive resistance (peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate)

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