HyperDic: hunger_strike

English > 1 sense of the expression hunger strike:
NOUNacthunger strikea voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest
English > hunger strike: 1 sense > noun 1, act
MeaningA voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest.
Broaderfast, fastingabstaining from food
passive resistance, nonviolent resistance, nonviolencepeaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing / refusing to cooperate
Spanishhuelga de hambre
Catalanvaga de fam

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