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wasting

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wast·ing  (wstng)
adj.
1. Gradually deteriorating; declining: the wasting process of erosion.
2. Sapping the strength, energy, or substance of the body; emaciating: a wasting disease.
wasting·ly adv.
wasting
Adjective
reducing the vitality and strength of the body: a pernicious wasting illness
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Noun1.wasting - any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
cachexia, cachexy
debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism - the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
2.wasting - a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
atrophy, wasting away
amyotrophia, amyotrophy - progressive wasting of muscle tissues
tabes - wasting of the body during a chronic disease
symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
kraurosis - atrophy and shriveling of the skin or mucous membrane


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Because I didn't see the use of wasting my time over it.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Meanwhile his home is in a wretched plight---suitors are wasting his substance and plotting against his son.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
When at last we were all assembled, waiting for dinner to be announced, I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to "take in," that civilised man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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