wasting

Meanings

Plural: wastings

Noun

• any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
• a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
• Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
• The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.

Verb

• spend thoughtlessly; throw away
• use inefficiently or inappropriately
• get rid of
• run off as waste
• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
• spend extravagantly
• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
• cause to grow thin or weak
• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• become physically weaker
  • "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
• present participle and gerund of waste

Adj

• Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.

Synonyms

atrophy, blow, cachexia, cachexy, consume, desolate, devastate, do in, emaciate, knock off, languish, lay waste to, liquidate, macerate, neutralise, neutralize, pine away, ravage, rot, run off, scourge, squander, ware, waste, wasting away

Antonyms

conserve

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