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Fasting vs Basting - What's the difference?

fasting | basting |

As nouns the difference between fasting and basting

is that fasting is tick; a tiny woodland arthropod of the order acarina while basting is a (physical) beating.

As a verb basting is

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fasting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • abstinence from food
  • * , The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
    • 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.

    basting

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A (physical) beating.

    • Verb

    (head)
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