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wasting [ˈweɪstɪŋ] adj
(prenominal) reducing the vitality, strength, or robustness of the body a wasting disease wastingly adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations wasting adj attr wasting disease → Auszehrung f; this is a wasting disease → das ist eine Krankheit, bei der der Körper allmählich verfällt wasting [ˈweɪstɪŋ] adj wasting disease → deperimento organico wasting [ˈweɪstɪŋ] adj wasting disease → deperimento organico How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Because I didn't see the use of wasting my time over it. Meanwhile his home is in a wretched plight---suitors are wasting his substance and plotting against his son. 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. |
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