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Adjective
Causing a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass
“A wasting disease.”
Adjective
Decreasing in amount
Noun
The process of physically withering or wasting away
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Noun
Death or killing on a large scale
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Noun
The act, state or fact of wasting funds
Noun
The process of organic decay or rotting
Noun
Ducks and drakes
Noun
An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder
Noun
The act of making very lean
Noun
The act, process or result of causing significant damage to something
Verb
Expending or consuming by employing
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“We cannot afford to waste any more money on frivolous items.”
Verb
(of a person or a part of the body) Present participle for to become progressively weaker and more emaciated
“My leg muscles would waste away before my eyes during the months when I was bedridden.”
Verb
Present participle for to physically debilitate or weaken
“Ultimately, I wouldn't be able to breathe, for the disease would waste away my diaphragm muscles.”
Verb
Present participle for to kill or severely injure (someone)
“I didn't want him dead, as he was too good at what he did for me to waste him like that.”
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Present participle for to completely destroy or devastate
“It was a case of one party attempting to waste the other.”
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