'Wasting' definitions:
Definition of 'wasting'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease [syn: cachexia, cachexy, wasting]
noun
A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [syn: atrophy, wasting, wasting away]
Definition of 'Wasting'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. [1913 Webster]
- Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted, Art made a mirror to behold my plight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- The Tiber Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. [1913 Webster]
- Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. --Num. xiv. 33. [1913 Webster]
- O, were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and pain. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him. --Robertson. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv. 13. [1913 Webster]
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wasting'
From: GCIDE
- Wasting \Wast"ing\, a. Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. [1913 Webster]
- Wasting palsy (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wasting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscess,
- aging,
- ague,
- anemia,
- ankylosis,
- anoxia,
- apnea,
- asphyxiation,
- asthma,
- ataxia,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- backache,
- baneful,
- bleeding,
- blennorhea,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- chill,
- chills,
- chronic ill health,
- colic,
- coming apart,
- constipation,
- consuming,
- consumption,
- consumptive,
- convulsion,
- coughing,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- cyanosis,
- deadly,
- debilitation,
- debility,
- decadent,
- declining,
- decrepitude,
- degenerate,
- delicacy,
- delicate health,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- deteriorating,
- devastating,
- diarrhea,
- disastrous,
- disintegrating,
- dizziness,
- doomful,
- doting,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dropsy,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dwindling,
- dysentery,
- dyspepsia,
- dyspnea,
- ebbing,
- edema,
- effete,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- enervation,
- exhaustion,
- fading,
- failing,
- fainting,
- falling,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fatigue,
- feebleness,
- fever,
- fibrillation,
- flagging,
- flux,
- fragility,
- fragmenting,
- frailty,
- fratricidal,
- getting on,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- growth,
- healthlessness,
- hemorrhage,
- high blood pressure,
- hydrops,
- hypertension,
- hypochondria,
- hypochondriasis,
- hypotension,
- icterus,
- ill health,
- indigestion,
- infirmity,
- inflammation,
- insomnia,
- internecine,
- invalidism,
- invalidity,
- itching,
- jaundice,
- labored breathing,
- languishing,
- languishment,
- low blood pressure,
- lumbago,
- marasmus,
- marcescent,
- morbidity,
- morbidness,
- nasal discharge,
- nausea,
- necrosis,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- pain,
- paralysis,
- parching,
- peakedness,
- pining,
- poor health,
- preshrinkage,
- pruritus,
- rash,
- ravaging,
- regressive,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- rheum,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- Sanforizing,
- sclerosis,
- searing,
- seizure,
- self-destructive,
- senescent,
- shock,
- shrinkage,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sickliness,
- sinking,
- skin eruption,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- sneezing,
- sore,
- spasm,
- subsiding,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- tabes,
- tabetic,
- tachycardia,
- thinning,
- tumor,
- unhealthiness,
- unsoundness,
- unwholesomeness,
- upset stomach,
- valetudinarianism,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- vertigo,
- vomiting,
- waning,
- wasteful,
- weakliness,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worsening
Words containing 'Wasting'
- Wast,
- Waste,
- Wasted,
- Wasteful,
- Wastefully,
- Wastefulness,
- Wasteness,
- Cop waste,
- Cotton waste,
- Impeachment of waste,
- Soda waste,
- To lay waste,
- Voluntary waste,
- Waste gate,
- Waste paper,
- Waste pipe,
- Waste steam,
- Waste trap,
- Wasting palsy,
- alkali waste,
- body waste,
- food waste,
- human waste,
- lay waste,
- lay waste to,
- laying waste,
- permissive waste,
- radioactive waste,
- toxic waste,
- waste away,
- waste basket,
- waste material,
- waste matter,
- waste of effort,
- waste of energy,
- waste of material,
- waste of money,
- waste of time,
- waste product,
- waste time,
- wasting away,
- wasting disease,
- chronic wasting disease,
- toxic industrial waste,
- toxic waste area,
- toxic waste dump,
- toxic waste site,
- waste one's time,
- waste-yard,
- waste-paper basket,
- high-level radioactive waste,
- low-level radioactive waste,
- blasted desolate desolated devastated ravaged ruined wasted