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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.Definition 2024
wasting
wasting
English
Adjective
wasting (not comparable)
- Causing a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass.
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Derived terms
Verb
wasting
- present participle of waste
Noun
wasting (plural wastings)
- Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
- muscular wastings
- The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.