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wasting
[wey-sting]
adjective
gradually reducing the fullness and strength of the body.
a wasting disease.
laying waste; devastating; despoiling.
the ravages of a wasting war.
noun
Geology.mass wasting.
wasting
/ ˈɱɪɪŋ /
adjective
(prenominal) reducing the vitality, strength, or robustness of the body
a wasting disease
Other 51Թ Forms
- wastingly adverb
- wastingness noun
- nonwasting adjective
- ˈɲپԲ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
“At first, they were classic Arab parents, saying things like ‘Why are you wasting your time on games,’ ” Rashd said, laughing.
Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader, told the programme his party wanted the government and councils to "stop wasting money" and cut money from the "back offices".
By year’s end, hundreds of thousands of people are projected to die because of his unilateral cuts to foreign aid, women and children wasting away from a lack of food or treatment for their HIV.
The fact that Duffy is wasting his time by making these threats and combing through awarded contracts to ferret out such putative violations is, however, a settled question: Of course he is.
"There's no information. Everything along the chain has to be stopped, and then there are thousands of pounds worth of product that are just wasting away."
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