wasting
adjective
[ ˈweɪstɪŋ ]
• causing a person or a part of the body to become progressively weaker and more emaciated.
• "a wasting disease"
waste
verb
• use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.
• "we can't afford to waste electricity"
Similar:
squander,
fritter away,
misspend,
misuse,
spend recklessly,
throw away,
lavish,
be wasteful with,
dissipate,
spend like water,
throw around like confetti,
go through,
run through,
exhaust,
drain,
deplete,
burn up,
use up,
consume,
blow,
splurge,
• (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated.
• "she was visibly wasting away"
Similar:
grow weak,
wither,
atrophy,
become emaciated,
shrivel up,
shrink,
decay,
decline,
wilt,
fade,
flag,
deteriorate,
degenerate,
rot,
moulder,
languish,
be abandoned,
be neglected,
be forgotten,
be disregarded,
• devastate or ruin (a place).
• "he seized their cattle and wasted their country"
• (of time) pass away.
• "the years were wasting"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e ) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.
