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Waste away
Answer for the clue "Waste away ", 7 letters:
rotting
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process by which something rots. 2 Material that has rotted. vb. (present participle of rot English)
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat" [syn: decompose , molder , moulder ] waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" [syn: waste ] [also: rotting , rotted ]
Usage examples of rotting.
The air circulation and purification system whispered-now strained by gases, organic molecules, and fungal spores rising from the rotting corpses bloating on the cool stone.
I can smell the rotting bodies, hear their loose flesh scraping on the rock.
Lovers dead, ships wounded and dying, masses of bodies broken and rotting beneath the suns of a hundred different worlds.
He could smell and taste the anger, frustration and complete bewilderment of the other survivors which hung like the stench of rotting flesh in the cold, grey air.
He lifted his rotting head, seeming almost to be looking at Michael who was still facing the other way.
He looked up at her for a fraction of a second before returning his attention to the rotting corpse in the mud.
The air was heavy with the sickening stench of rotting food and rotting flesh.
Although their slow stagger was obviously no match for that of the van, the relentlessness and pointless persistence of the rotting gathering caused an icy chill to run the entire length of his spine.
As we drove back along roads strewn with rotting human remains and other wrecked remnants of society, I began to wonder what was next.
While everyone I knew lay rotting in the streets - either lying motionless on the ground or dragging themselves around in endless agony - I had survived.
She looked up and saw through the French windows that more rotting faces were staring back at her from outside this room.
The whole of the lower floor of the house was carpeted with a seething mass of writhing, rotting bodies.
He guessed that they were used to seeing bodies moving and that their rotting brains were not been able to distinguish between him and the millions of other sickly bodies still dragging themselves along the silent streets.
A vast crowd surged towards the scene as fast as their rotting legs would carry them.
Although devoid of any other moving traffic, they were littered with haphazard piles of rubbish, twisted, rusting vehicle wreckage and rotting human remains.