wasting (redirected from wastingly)

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.

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wasting·ly adv.

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wasting

Adjective

reducing the vitality and strength of the body: a pernicious wasting illness

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	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