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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"

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

... in Flanders a company of young men who spent much time in drinking and rioting among the taverns, wasting their lives in gambling and dancing ...

— The Junior Classics, V4 • Willam Patten (Editor)

... I was not wasting my time. I was using the pick upon a cluster of bunch grass hummocks, wishing to fill the gold pan with dirt from underneath that I might wash it out and ...

— The Trail of a Sourdough - Life in Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan

... from the uncorked bottles of heaven. In a few moments the horizon was again overshadowed, and an almost impenetrable gloom mantled the face of the skies.... The majestic roar of disploded thunders, now bursting with a sudden crash, and now wasting the rumbling ECHO of their sounds in other lands, added indescribable grandeur to the sublime scene." The suggestion of the "Echo" came from this phrase, and the success of the first venture easily directed the writers into the use of their instrument for lashing political enemies. Two numbers ...

— Noah Webster - American Men of Letters • Horace E. Scudder

... frontier and was safe in Scotland. The Scots espoused her cause, and assisted her to raise fresh troops, with which she made one or two short incursions into England; but she soon found that she could do nothing effectual in this way, and so, after wasting some time in fruitless attempts, she left Scotland with the king and the prince, and ...

— Richard III - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... wasting disease, a consuming fire, a destroying demon; in youth it is a calamity, in the vigor of manhood it is a disgrace and a sin, and in old age it can be honorably accepted only as the symbol of reflective leisure earned by a life of industry and virtue. Industry ...

— Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions • George S. Boutwell

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