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A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Edwin Louis Cole

Meaning of "hunger strike" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HUNGER STRIKE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HUNGER STRIKE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hunger strike is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HUNGER STRIKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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.

Definition of hunger strike in the English dictionary

The definition of hunger strike in the dictionary is a voluntary fast undertaken, usually by a prisoner, as a means of protest.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HUNGER STRIKE

hungan
Hungarian
Hungarian goulash
Hungary
hunger
hunger march
hunger marches
hunger pangs
hunger striker
hungerful
hungeringly
hungerly
Hungnam
hungrier
hungriest
hungrily
hungriness
hungry

WORDS THAT END LIKE HUNGER STRIKE

air strike
bird strike
coal strike
counterstrike
dock strike
first-strike
general strike
lightning strike
out on strike
overstrike
rail strike
relay hunger strike
restrike
second-strike
shrike
sit-down strike
strike
surgical strike
thunderstrike
trike
wildcat strike

Synonyms and antonyms of hunger strike in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hunger strike» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HUNGER STRIKE

Find out the translation of hunger strike to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hunger strike from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hunger strike» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

绝食抗议
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

huelga de hambre
570 millions of speakers

English

hunger strike
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भूख हड़ताल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إضراب عن الطعام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

голодовка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

greve de fome
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনশন - ধর্মঘট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

grève de la faim
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

mogok lapar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hungerstreik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハンスト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단식 투쟁
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mogok lapar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tuyệt thực
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உண்ணாவிரத போராட்டம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उपोषण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

açlık grevi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sciopero della fame
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

strajk głodowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

голодовка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

greva foamei
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απεργία πείνας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eetstaking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hungerstrejk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sultestreik
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hunger strike

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HUNGER STRIKE»

The term «hunger strike» is quite widely used and occupies the 26.110 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HUNGER STRIKE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hunger strike» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hunger strike» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hunger strike

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QUOTES WITH «HUNGER STRIKE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hunger strike.
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Edwin Louis Cole
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUNGER STRIKE»

Discover the use of hunger strike in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hunger strike and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for ...
In this classic text, originally published in 1986, Susie Orbach brilliantly examines the anorectic's struggle.
Susie Orbach, 2005
2
Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
A portrait of strife-torn Northern Ireland chronicles the events that occurred when jailed IRA members demanded to be recognized as political prisoners in 1981, events that saw ten men starve themselves to death.
David Beresford, 1997
3
Hunger Strike: Reflections on the 1981 Republican Hunger Strike
A collection of essays by well-known novelists and poets reflecting on the 1980's hungerstrikers in Northern Ireland.
Danny Morrison, 2006
4
Education, Politics, and a Hunger Strike: A Popular ...
CHAPTER 2 A SCHOOL FOR THE PEOPLE Hunger Strike for Education This chapter explains the circumstances that prompted community members to participate in a hunger strike. In brief, Little Village is the largest Mexican community in the ...
Gabriel A. Cortez, 2008
5
The Hunger Strikes
Never before all shades of Green, Orange and British opinion on the Hunger Strikes have been collected together in the same book.
R. K. Walker, 2008
6
Hunger: A Modern History
During the 1920s, in the rush to assemble an exclusively male republican tradition for the hunger strike, its prior history was quickly forgotten and the hunger strikes of republican women all but ignored. Like the suffragettes, members of the ...
James Vernon, 2009
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Nothing But an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, the Irish ...
A profile of the IRA hunger striker and international icon describes his transformation from a typical youth to the leader of a protest group challenging British rule in Ireland, his work with the Irish Republican Army, and the example he ...
Denis O'Hearn, 2006
8
The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 ...
The first was a four-man hunger strike organized by Liu Xiaobo and the second the establishment of the Democracy University in the Square. On May 29, Liu Xiaobo invited Zhou Duo and Hou Dejian to stage a seventy-two-hour hunger strike.
Dingxin Zhao, 2008
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Beijing Spring, 1989: Confrontation and Conflict: The Basic ...
To express our determination and to vigorously protest, we hereby resort to petition by hunger strike, urging the government to engage in a genuine dialogue with the All-Beijing Autonomous Student Association. The Hunger Strike Group of  ...
Michel Oksenberg, Lawrence R. Sullivan, Marc Lambert, 1990
10
The Exodus Affair: Holocaust Survivors and the Struggle for ...
On 12 August 1947 Ha-Aretz published a strategically placed headline: "Are the immigrants about to announce a hunger strike?" Five days later, the three ships received orders to prepare for a hunger strike the following day. The main aim of  ...
‎1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUNGER STRIKE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hunger strike is used in the context of the following news items.
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Indefinite hunger strike for English as MoI from July 27 - The Times …
Panaji: Savio Lopes of Forum for Rights of Children to Education (FORCE) will go on an indefinite hunger strike from July 27 onwards at Panaji ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
2
Asylum seeker clocks 100 day hunger strike | SBS News
Asylum seeker Mohammad Albederee will clock up 100 days on a hunger strike on Friday at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New ... «SBS, Jul 15»
3
Fury as shots fired over coffin of hunger striker Patsy O'Hara's …
National Hunger Strike Rally 2014 Republicans take part in the National Hunger Strike Rally in Derrylin, Co. Fermanagh organised Êby Sinn ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
4
Qualified gram sevikas to continue hunger strike | The Shillong Times
SHILLONG: The agitating members of the Association of Qualified Candidates for the post of Gram Sevika 2012, East Khasi Hills have decided ... «The Shillong Times, Jul 15»
5
Anna Hazare to Go on Indefinite Hunger Strike over Land Bill, OROP
A retired Indian Army soldier and social activist, Anna Hazare, has decided to begin an indefinite hunger strike against Land Acquisition ... «International Business Times, India Edition, Jul 15»
6
Demands not met, RTDC staff on a hunger strike - The Times of India
JAIPUR: The employees of Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC) sat on a hunger strike at the RTDC head office after several ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
7
Palestine's Adnan waged hunger strike to 'gain freedom' Anadolu …
“I didn't go on hunger strike because I wanted to die, but for the love of freedom,” Adnan told Anadolu Agency. “I wanted to be next to my ... «Anadolu Agency, Jul 15»
8
Pelican Bay Hunger Strike: Four years and still fighting
Four years ago prisoners in California – led by those in the control units of Pelican Bay – organized a hunger strike to demand an end to the ... «San Francisco Bay View, Jul 15»
9
Court Rules Inmate Must Pay For Health Care During Hunger Strike
PITTSBURGH, July 13 (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania court on Monday rejected an inmate's claim that he was not responsible for paying for ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Prisoner must fork over medical co-pay for hunger strike, Pa. Court …
Prisoner must fork over medical co-pay for hunger strike, Pa. ... that he shouldn't have to pay toward his medical care during a hunger strike. «PennLive.com, Jul 15»

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