The word "fasted" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is the past tense form of the verb "fast," which means to go without food or to abstain from something. Example: She fasted for three days before her religious ceremony. In this sentence, "fasted" is used to indicate that the person did not eat for a period of three days.
Inspired by Kafka's short story The Hunger Artist, Hermann Hesse's Siddartha and, possibly, his burgeoning love handles, Blaine fasted while people hurled food and abuse at him.
I fasted for the next day and a half.The Yemen Café is one of three Yemeni restaurants among a good dozen or so Arab restaurants, bakeries and groceries towards the western end of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.
Despairing, they fasted and prayed for two days.
The author notes that the union's membership continued to decline in the late 1980s even after Chávez fasted for 36 days to support its grape boycott and anti-pesticide campaign.
In a recent survey conducted by TESEV, a respected Turkish think-tank, 97% of those questioned identified themselves as Muslim, 92% said they fasted during the holy month of Ramadan, and 46% claimed to pray five times a day.
Mr Roberts prayed, fasted, wept on prime time and raised the money, but the City of Faith closed down within two years, despite what Jesus had assured him.
He fasted each year on August 6th, the anniversary of the atom bombing of Hiroshima, a day he said marked the end of the Christian era.
Though it was slow to grasp the intensity of public support for Anna Hazare, an anti-corruption crusader who has twice this year fasted and wrong-footed the government, the party backed him last month.
The mothers, who had fasted for three days before the opening match, apologised to the nation.
The young man before him, Thileepan, had fasted to death to highlight the plight of Sri Lanka's Tamil minority and their demands for independence.
