食しょくを断たつ

expression, godan verb (-tsu)

to fast; to abstain from eating

A somewhat formal or literary expression for fasting, often implying a deliberate, sometimes spiritual or protest-related, abstention from food.

• 彼かれは宗しゅう教きょう的てきな理り由ゆうで三みっ日か間かん食しょくを断たった。

  He fasted for three days for religious reasons.

• ハンガーストライキで囚しゅう人じんたちは食しょくを断たっている。

  The prisoners are fasting as part of a hunger strike.