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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hunger strikenoun

    a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest

Wiktionary

  1. hunger strikenoun

    a fast undertaken as a means of protest, often by a prisoner

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  1. Hunger Strike

    Hunger Strike is a song by the American rock band Temple of the Dog. Written by vocalist Chris Cornell, "Hunger Strike" was released in 1991 as the first single from the band's sole studio album, Temple of the Dog (1991). It was Temple of the Dog's most popular song. The song peaked at number four on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

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  1. hunger strike

    A hunger strike is a nonviolent form of protest in which individuals refuse to eat, and sometimes drink, to draw attention to a specific cause, demand, injustice, or political issue. The aim is often to evoke a sense of guilt in others, particularly those in authority, in order to achieve a goal or bring about change. It can be short-term or long-term and is commonly used by imprisoned individuals or groups.

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  1. Hunger strike

    A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most hunger strikers will take liquids but not solid food. In cases where an entity has or is able to obtain custody of the hunger striker, the hunger strike is often terminated by the custodial entity through the use of force-feeding.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hunger strike in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hunger strike in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of hunger strike in a Sentence

  1. Savik Shuster:

    I declare a hunger strike until my right to work in Ukraine is returned to me.

  2. Abu Wa'el Dhiab:

    I don't know if I'm going to do hunger strike, i will talk about this after the meeting.

  3. Ko Yong Suk:

    When his mother tried to tell him off for playing with these things too much and not studying enough, he wouldn’t talk back but he would protest in other ways, like going on a hunger strike.

  4. Peter Cole:

    I wanted to come today, to stand in solidarity with Professor Peter Cole and Marko Stepanov, who have been on hunger strike for three weeks, asking our government and all political parties for stronger commitments for the climate, these 76 and 67 year old grandfathers – and hundreds of other hunger strikers around the world – feel so desperate about the climate crisis that they risk damaging their own health on behalf of younger generations.

  5. Mehdi Rajabian:

    This piece is the narrator of a human body that no longer has a physical presence, the feeling is for the time when I was on a hunger strike, between earth and sky, between life and death, between the living and the dead ... On the 29th day of the hunger strike, I opened my eyes that morning, and I did not know whether I was alive or dead, on earth or in heaven. I was in a trance. It was a strange feeling.


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