fasted
past simple and past participle offast
fast
verb[I]
uk/fɑːst/us/fæst/toeatnofoodfor aperiodoftime:
Onedayaweekhe fasts forhealthreasons.
Abstaining and refraining
- abstain
- abstainer
- abstemious
- abstemiously
- abstention
- cut
- disengagement
- fast
- forbear
- forbearance
- give
- give up
- hors de combat
- pull back
- step
- step back
- stop
- stop short ofsomethingidiom
- swear offsomething
- touch
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Diets & dieting
Examplesoffasted
fasted
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Before each test, animals werefastedovernight but had free access to water.
From theCambridge English Corpus
All children werefastedfor a minimum of six hours.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The triatomines used had beenfastedfor at least a week.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Therefore, thesefastedgroups provided data that were recorded as at the boundary, but can be expected to be lower than this threshold.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Metabolic balance of the ovine fetus during the fed andfastedstates.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Animals werefastedovernight (16 h) before measurements were taken.
From theCambridge English Corpus
All goats were thenfastedovernight prior to any shearing or crutching.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The patients attended the hospital in the morning, havingfastedsince midnight.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Slightly smaller but significant correlations were found in nonfasted control animals, but the correlations were not significant when the animals werefasted.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Patients should befastedfor two hours prior to the procedure to avoid the effects of postprandial hypotension, and then rested supine for 20-45 minutes.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In total, 15 of 93 samples fell below this threshold of the assay : 12 of 18 samples fromfastedlean line animals and 3 of 16 from fasted control animals.
From theCambridge English Corpus
That does not mean that the farmer's wife will no longer get white meat in her confinement, but that meat really will be from calves that have 'fasted'.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We used to call that 'fastedveal'.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Anthony one night when the saint was staying up, havingfastedand stayed awake.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
They started the "dharna" on the 13th andfasteduntil the full moon.
From
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
- previous experiment
- previous forecast
- previous generation
- previous holder
- previous inspection
- previous investigation
- previous literature
- previously
- previous marriage
- previous occasion
- previous occupant
- previous outbreak
- previous owner
- previous page
- previous paragraph
- previous post
- previous pregnancy
- previous quarter
- previous record
- previous research
- previous season
- previous section
- previous session
- previous speaker
- previous study