Fasten vs Fasting - What's the difference?
fasten | fasting |
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
* Jonathan Swift
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
* Shakespeare
abstinence from food
* , The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
As verbs the difference between fasten and fasting
is that fasten is to attach or connect in a secure manner while fasting is present participle of lang=en.As a noun fasting is
abstinence from food.fasten
English
Verb
(en verb)- The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
- Fasten your seatbelts!
- Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
- The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
- to fasten a blow
- if I can fasten but one cup upon him
Anagrams
* * English ergative verbs ----fasting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Immediately after that affair Lady Wondershoot, casting about for exemplary additions to the abuse and fastings she had inflicted, issued a Ukase. She issued it first to her butler, and very suddenly, so that she made him jump.