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wasting

[wey-sting]

adjective

  1. gradually reducing the fullness and strength of the body.

    a wasting disease.

  2. laying waste; devastating; despoiling.

    the ravages of a wasting war.



noun

  1. Geology.mass wasting.

wasting

/ ˈɱɪɪŋ /

adjective

  1. (prenominal) reducing the vitality, strength, or robustness of the body

    a wasting disease

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • wastingly adverb
  • wastingness noun
  • nonwasting adjective
  • ˈɲپԲ adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of wasting1

1200–50; Middle English; waste, -ing 2, -ing 1
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“At first, they were classic Arab parents, saying things like ‘Why are you wasting your time on games,’ ” Rashd said, laughing.

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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".

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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.

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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.

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"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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