hunger strike
noun
a deliberate refusal to eat, undertaken in protest against imprisonment, improper treatment, objectionable conditions, etc.
hunger striker
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a word derived from
hunger strike.
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a word derived from
hunger-strike.
hunger strikenouna deliberate refusal to eat, undertaken in protest against imprisonment, improper treatment, objectionable conditions, etc.
Example Sentences
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As a young activist in Paris, future Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh followed the Irish rebellion closely, and was reportedly inspired by the example of legendary Irish hunger striker Terence MacSwiney.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2025
Senior David Chmielewski, a hunger striker, said in an email Saturday that it started Friday morning with participants consuming water only.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024
“Civil rights is not divisive,” said hunger striker Thenmozhi Soundararajan, executive director of the national Dalit civil rights organization Equality Labs and a member of the California Coalition for Caste Equity, before Newsom’s veto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Even so, he was doing better than fellow hunger striker Kidus Girma.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021
Inside the Maze Prison in 1981, he wrote and delivered the oration for the hunger striker Bobby Sands; reading it from a cell he shared at that time with the IRA jail leader Brendan McFarlane.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2019
