Crossword clues for wasting
wasting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Waste \Waste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wasting.] [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F. g[^a]ter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr. vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosten, G. w["u]sten, AS. w[=e]stan. See Waste, a.]
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To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted, Art made a mirror to behold my plight.
--Spenser.The Tiber Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
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To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
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O, were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!
--Milton.Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and pain.
--Milton.Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.
--Robertson.3. To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living.
--Luke xv. 13.Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
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(Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
Syn: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.
Wiktionary
Causing a waste, particularly a ''wasting disease'' which causes pronounced loss of body mass. n. 1 Gradual deterioration or waste away. 2 The act by which something is lay waste; destruction. v
(present participle of waste English)
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]
Wikipedia
In medicine, wasting, also known as wasting syndrome, refers to the process by which a debilitating disease causes muscle and fat tissue to "waste" away. Wasting is sometimes referred to as "acute malnutrition" because it is believed that episodes of wasting have a short duration, in contrast to stunting, which is regarded as chronic malnutrition. According to the latest UN estimates, an estimated 52 million children under 5 years of age, or 8%, were wasted in 2011. The vast majority, about 70%, of the world's wasted children live in Asia, most in South-Central Asia.
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.