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How is "water fast" wrong?

• imwillofficial 5y ago
  Because you’re not fasting from the use of water
  • Zababa 5y ago
    That might be a stupid question but is there a grammar rule or something that would suggest that "water fast" is "abstaining from water" and not "abstaining from food except water"? Maybe it's an expansion of the definition of fasting and thus leads to "abstaining from water", in which case the correct term would be "water diet".
    • imwillofficial 5y ago
      You nailed it.