Wasting

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  • adjective. Gradually deteriorating; declining.
  • adjective. Sapping the strength, energy, or substance of the body; emaciating.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Laying waste; devastating; despoiling.
  • Gradually reducing the bodily plumpness and strength; enfeebling; emaciating: as, a wasting disease.
  • noun. In medicine, atrophy.
  • noun. In stone-cutting, the process or operation of chipping off fragments from a block of stone with a pick or point, for the purpose of reducing the faces to an approximately plane surface. Stone so worked is said to be wasted off. Compare clowring.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing
  • adjective. progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Referring to something that cause a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass.
  • verb. Present participle of waste.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
  • noun. any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
    • Word Usage
    "In _The boy wasting his time does not study_, the words _wasting his time_ form an adjective phrase modifying _boy_."
    cross-reference
    wasting palsy  
    Form
    wasting disease  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    debility  feebleness  frailness  frailty  infirmity  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    basting  hasting  lambasting  pasting  tasting  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Sanforizing  abscess  aging  ague  anemia  
    verb-stem
    waste  
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