Word Information

Wasting

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Definitions for Wasting

noun
any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
Synonyms
cachexia cachexy
noun
a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
Synonyms
atrophy wasting away
verb
spend thoughtlessly
Synonyms
waste blow squander
Examples
  1. throw away
  2. He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
  3. You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
verb
use inefficiently or inappropriately
Synonyms
waste
Examples
  1. waste heat
  2. waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
verb
get rid of
Synonyms
waste
Examples
  1. We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
verb
run off as waste
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waste run off
Examples
  1. The water wastes back into the ocean
verb
get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
Synonyms
neutralize neutralise liquidate waste knock off do in
Examples
  1. The mafia liquidated the informer
  2. the double agent was neutralized
verb
spend extravagantly
Synonyms
consume squander waste ware
Examples
  1. waste not, want not
verb
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
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pine away waste languish
Examples
  1. After her husband died, she just pined away
verb
cause to grow thin or weak
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waste emaciate macerate
Examples
  1. The treatment emaciated him
verb
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Synonyms
lay waste to waste devastate desolate ravage scourge
Examples
  1. The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
verb
become physically weaker
Synonyms
waste rot
Examples
  1. Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world

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