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English

Adjective

Referring to something that cause a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass.

Derived terms

wasting disease

Verb

wasting

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Waste \Waste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wasting.] [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F.
g[^a]ter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr.
vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but
influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosten, G.
w["u]sten, AS. w[=e]stan. See Waste, a.]
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1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
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Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted,
Art made a mirror to behold my plight. --Spenser.
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The Tiber
Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
--Dryden.
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2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish
by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear
out.
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Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
--Num. xiv.
33.
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O, were I able
To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! --Milton.
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Here condemned
To waste eternal days in woe and pain. --Milton.
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Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of
age daily grew on him. --Robertson.
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3. To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ
prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to
useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause
to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
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The younger son gathered all together, and . . .
wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv.
13.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray.
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4. (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate,
voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc.,
to go to decay.
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Syn: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Wasting \Wast"ing\, a.
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a
wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
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Wasting palsy (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See
under Progressive.
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WordNet wasting
n 1: any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and
mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease [syn:
cachexia, cachexy]
2: a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
[syn: atrophy, wasting away]

Moby Dictionary
Sanforizing , abscess , aging , ague , anemia , ankylosis , anoxia ,
apnea , asphyxiation , asthma , ataxia , atrophy , attenuation ,
backache , baneful , bleeding , blennorhea , cachexia , cachexy ,
calamitous , cataclysmal , cataclysmic , catastrophic , chill , chills ,
chronic ill health , colic , coming apart , constipation , consuming ,
consumption , consumptive , convulsion , coughing , cracking ,
crumbling , cyanosis , deadly , debilitation , debility , decadent ,
declining , decrepitude , degenerate , delicacy , delicate health ,
demolishing , demolitionary , depredatory , desolating , destroying ,
destructive , deteriorating , devastating , diarrhea , disastrous ,
disintegrating , dizziness , doomful , doting , draining , drooping ,
dropsy , drying , drying up , dwindling , dysentery , dyspepsia ,
dyspnea , ebbing , edema , effete , emaceration , emaciation ,
enervation , exhaustion , fading , failing , fainting , falling , fatal ,
fateful , fatigue , feebleness , fever , fibrillation , flagging , flux ,
fragility , fragmenting , frailty , fratricidal , getting on ,
going to pieces , growing old , growth , healthlessness , hemorrhage ,
high blood pressure , hydrops , hypertension , hypochondria ,
hypochondriasis , hypotension , icterus , ill health , indigestion ,
infirmity , inflammation , insomnia , internecine , invalidism ,
invalidity , itching , jaundice , labored breathing , languishing ,
languishment , low blood pressure , lumbago , marasmus , marcescent ,
morbidity , morbidness , nasal discharge , nausea , necrosis , nihilist ,
nihilistic , pain , paralysis , parching , peakedness , pining ,
poor health , preshrinkage , pruritus , rash , ravaging , regressive ,
retrograde , retrogressive , rheum , ruining , ruinous , sclerosis ,
searing , seizure , self-destructive , senescent , shock , shrinkage ,
shrinking , shriveling , sickliness , sinking , skin eruption , sliding ,
slipping , slumping , sneezing , sore , spasm , subsiding ,
subversionary , subversive , suicidal , tabes , tabetic , tachycardia ,
thinning , tumor , unhealthiness , unsoundness , unwholesomeness ,
upset stomach , valetudinarianism , vandalic , vandalish , vandalistic ,
vertigo , vomiting , waning , wasteful , weakliness , wilting ,
withering , worsening