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Wasting   /wˈeɪstɪŋ/   Listen
Wasting

noun
1.
Any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease.  Synonyms: cachexia, cachexy.
2.
A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse.  Synonyms: atrophy, wasting away.



Waste

verb
(past & past part. wasted; pres. part. wasting)
1.
Spend thoughtlessly; throw away.  Synonyms: blow, squander.  "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"  Antonym: conserve.
2.
Use inefficiently or inappropriately.  "Waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
3.
Get rid of.
4.
Run off as waste.  Synonym: run off.
5.
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.  Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize.  "The double agent was neutralized"
6.
Spend extravagantly.  Synonyms: consume, squander, ware.
7.
Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief.  Synonyms: languish, pine away.
8.
Cause to grow thin or weak.  Synonyms: emaciate, macerate.
9.
Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.  Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge.
10.
Become physically weaker.  Synonym: rot.



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"Wasting" Quotes from Famous Books



... under sides of roof? If not insulated, your house can lose a quantity of heat at these points. Remember, heat rises and, after a storm, if the snow on the roof of your house melts quicker than on those of your neighbors, it is a clear demonstration that you are wasting heat by letting it ooze through certain minute apertures. Another way to combat this upward radiation is to pour a loose, featherlike insulating material into the space between the attic flooring ...
— If You're Going to Live in the Country • Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley

... new pregnancy. 2. Mothers with uncontrollable tempers. 3. Cases of breast abscess. 4. Prolonged illness of the mother with high fever. 5. Wasting diseases such as tuberculosis, Bright's disease, heart disease, etc. 6. Maternal syphilis. 7. When maternal milk utterly fails, ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... slow-poke who keeps right on doing a thing without wasting any time always gets somewhere sooner or later, very often sooner than those who are naturally quicker, but who waste their time. So it was with Old Mr. Toad. He kept right on, hop, hop, hipperty-hop, while the others were playing, and so it happened ...
— The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad • Thornton W. Burgess

... the only traitor. The rest of the Goths agreed unanimously that Hypatia was a very foolish person, who was wasting her youth and beauty in talking to donkey-riders; and Pelagia remounted her mule, and the Goths their horses, for ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley

... commercial tangle is so well understood in Paris, that unless a merchant is involved to a large amount he accepts a failure as total shipwreck without insurance, passes it to his profit-and-loss account, and does not commit the folly of wasting time upon it; he contents himself with brewing his own malt. As to the petty trader, worried about his monthly payments, busied in pushing the chariot of his little fortunes, a long and costly legal process terrifies him. He gives up trying to see his ...
— Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau • Honore de Balzac


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