Atrophy — careless destruction

• Loss by decay
• Amount squandered
• Resource loss through carelessness
• Exhausting process? Finally show a leg
• The process of wasting

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wastage \Wast"age\, n. Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration 2 (context countable English) Anything lost by wear or waste 3 Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES natural wastage COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE natural ▪ For the Army we are talking about in excess of 10,000 redundancies and much of the other reductions will occur through natural wastage . ▪ There is a natural ...

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