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Webster 1913 Edition
Wasting
Wast′ing
,Adj.
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing;
as, a
wasting
disease; a wasting
fortune. Webster 1828 Edition
Wasting
WASTING
,ppr.
1.
Lavishing prodigally; expending or consuming without use; diminishing by slow dissipation; desolating; laying waste.Wasting and relentless war has made ravages, with but few and short intermissions, from the days of the tyrant Nimrod down to the Nimrod of our own age.
2.
a. Diminishing by dissipation or by great destruction; as a wasting disease.