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Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
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wasting
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN money ▪ To do so would risk purchasing care inappropriately and, by wasting money , could exacerbate inequalities. ▪ I should not let them linger, wasting time, wasting money , until the spring brings them fresh ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wasting \Wast"ing\, a. Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease [syn: cachexia , cachexy ] a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [syn: atrophy , wasting away ]
Usage examples of wasting.
With voice far sweeter than thy dying notes, Spirit more vast than thine, frame more attuned To beauty, wasting these surpassing powers In the deaf air, to the blind earth, and heaven That echoes not my thoughts?
Scarcely wasting a glance upon the great glass-panelled roof, the shops, the paste-jewelled carts and bedizened vendors, the tame songbirds and costumed monkeys, or even the jugglers and acrobats performing about the fountain in the vast atrium, she hurried after her cousin, who in turn chased Bayelle vo Clari vaux.
It was midnight, and we went on wasting our time in this desultory conversation, when the prudent and careful servant brought us an excellent supper.
If old bullen was trying to frighten tommy wilson he was wasting his time.
I could assume the Margravate without difficulty, but I feel that in so doing I would be wasting a potential that could be put to better use.
Meanwhile, the king and queen had been stricken with a wasting illness from which diviners said they could only recover if Pali Kongju would aid them by fetching the medicinal water from the Western Sky.
Uncle Martin, who, as I say, had never liked Mr Escreet, blamed him for encouraging Papa to believe that he had a chance of regaining the Hougham Propperty and wasting his life and his fortune in persuit of this.
The hard work and direct approach of my lawyer, Herb Plever, who knew there was no sense in, wasting time with hanky-panky and fancy Perry Mason tactics when a simple laying-out of the facts would prove my innocence.
He relished it for a moment, then reminded himself that he still had a long way to travel, even if he was only going to Praunce instead of Teyzha, and that there was no sense in wasting the few remaining hours of daylight.
Not wasting any more time, he raised his gaze to meet hers and redelivered his ultimatum.
When the great emergencies of the state required his presence and attention, he was engaged in conversation with the philosopher Plotinus, wasting his time in trifling or licentious pleasures, preparing his initiation to the Grecian mysteries, or soliciting a place in the Arcopagus of Athens.
Captain Steng grumbled as we floated there with the engines silent, wasting precious days, while half his crew was involved in getting out what appeared to be insane instructions.
It consists of wasting of the bones, subcutaneous tissues, and muscles of one-half of the face or head, the muscles suffering but slightly.
Five minutes became what he judged was fifteen, and then twenty, and he was wasting his time, he should have gone right in after Teasle, but now he could not.
He hacked angrily at the point of a wooden spear with her small knife as he muttered something about witlings wasting breath stating the obvious.