Definitions of hunger strike
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a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest
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type of:
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fast, fasting
abstaining from food
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nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, passive resistance
peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate
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fast, fasting
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