to go on hunger strike
21hunger strike — a deliberate refusal to eat, undertaken in protest against imprisonment, improper treatment, objectionable conditions, etc. [1885 90] * * * …
22hunger strike — noun a fast undertaken as a means of protest, often by a prisoner …
23hunger strike — refusal to eat as a sign of protest …
24ˈhunger ˌstrike — noun [C] a refusal to eat for a long time by someone who is protesting against something …
25hunger strike — /ˈhʌŋgə straɪk/ (say hungguh struyk) noun a persistent refusal to eat, as a protest against imprisonment, restraint, compulsion, etc …
26hunger striker — hunger striker, a person who goes on a hunger strike. * * * hunger striker noun, pl ⋯ ers [count] • • • Main Entry: ↑hunger strike * * * ˈhunger striker [hunger striker hunger strikers] ; …
27Strike — may refer to:Refusal to work or perform* Strike action, also known as a Walkout, a work stoppage by a corporation or public institution * General strike, a strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country *Church… …
28strike — [strīk] vt. struck, struck or occas. (but for vt. 11 commonly and for vt. 8 & 15 usually) stricken, striking, [ME striken, to proceed, flow, strike with rod or sword < OE strican, to go, proceed, advance, akin to Ger streichen < IE * streig …
29hunger — (n.) O.E. hungor unease or pain caused by lack of food, craving appetite, debility from lack of food, from P.Gmc. *hungruz (Cf. O.Fris. hunger, O.S. hungar, O.H.G. hungar, O.N. hungr, Ger. hunger, Du. honger, Goth. huhrus), probably from PIE root …
30strike — I n. refusal to work 1) to call, go (out) on; organize a strike 2) to conduct, stage a strike 3) to avert; break (up); settle a strike 4) a buyers ; general; hunger; official (BE); rent; sit down; sympathy; token; unofficial (BE), wildcat strike… …
