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wast·ing
[wey-sting] Pronunciation Key
[wey-sting] Pronunciation Key –adjective
–noun
| 1. | gradually reducing the fullness and strength of the body: a wasting disease. |
| 2. | laying waste; devastating; despoiling: the ravages of a wasting war. |
| 3. | Geology. mass wasting. |
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waste
[weyst] Pronunciation Key verb, wast·ed, wast·ing, noun, adjective
—Related forms
[weyst] Pronunciation Key verb, wast·ed, wast·ing, noun, adjective –verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
–noun
–adjective
—Idioms
| 1. | to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words. |
| 2. | to fail or neglect to use: to waste an opportunity. |
| 3. | to destroy or consume gradually; wear away: The waves waste the rock of the shore. |
| 4. | to wear down or reduce in bodily substance, health, or strength; emaciate; enfeeble: to be wasted by disease or hunger. |
| 5. | to destroy, devastate, or ruin: a country wasted by a long and futile war. |
| 6. | Slang. to kill or murder. |
| 7. | to be consumed, spent, or employed uselessly or without giving full value or being fully utilized or appreciated. |
| 8. | to become gradually consumed, used up, or worn away: A candle wastes in burning. |
| 9. | to become physically worn; lose flesh or strength; become emaciated or enfeebled. |
| 10. | to diminish gradually; dwindle, as wealth, power, etc.: The might of England is wasting. |
| 11. | to pass gradually, as time. |
| 12. | useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting: The project was a waste of material, money, time, and energy. |
| 13. | neglect, instead of use: waste of opportunity. |
| 14. | gradual destruction, impairment, or decay: the waste and repair of bodily tissue. |
| 15. | devastation or ruin, as from war or fire. |
| 16. | a region or place devastated or ruined: The forest fire left a blackened waste. |
| 17. | anything unused, unproductive, or not properly utilized. |
| 18. | an uncultivated tract of land. |
| 19. | a wild region or tract of land; desolate country, desert, or the like. |
| 20. | an empty, desolate, or dreary tract or extent: a waste of snow. |
| 21. | anything left over or superfluous, as excess material or by-products, not of use for the work in hand: a fortune made in salvaging factory wastes. |
| 22. | remnants, as from the working of cotton, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil, etc. |
| 23. | Physical Geography. material derived by mechanical and chemical disintegration of rock, as the detritus transported by streams, rivers, etc. |
| 24. | garbage; refuse. |
| 25. | wastes, excrement. |
| 26. | not used or in use: waste energy; waste talents. |
| 27. | (of land, regions, etc.) wild, desolate, barren, or uninhabited; desert. |
| 28. | (of regions, towns, etc.) in a state of desolation and ruin, as from devastation or decay. |
| 29. | left over or superfluous: to utilize waste products of manufacture. |
| 30. | having served or fulfilled a purpose; no longer of use. |
| 31. | rejected as useless or worthless; refuse: to salvage waste products. |
| 32. | Physiology. pertaining to material unused by or unusable to the organism. |
| 33. | designed or used to receive, hold, or carry away excess, superfluous, used, or useless material (often in combination): a waste pipe; waste container. |
| 34. | Obsolete. excessive; needless. |
| 35. | go to waste, to fail to be used or consumed; be wasted: She hates to see good food go to waste. |
| 36. | lay waste, to devastate; destroy; ruin: Forest fires lay waste thousands of acres yearly. |
[Origin: 1150–1200; 1960–65 for def. 6; (adj.) ME < ONF wast (OF g(u)ast) < L vāstus desolate; (v.) ME < ONF waster (OF g(u)aster) < L vāstāre, deriv. of vāstus; (n.) ME < ONF wast(e) (OF g(u)aste), partly < L vāstum, n. use of neut. of vāstus, partly deriv. of waster; ONF w-, OF gu- by influence of c. Frankish *wōsti desolate (c. OHG wuosti)
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] —Related forms
wast·a·ble, adjective
wasteless, adjective
—Synonyms 1. misspend, dissipate, fritter away, expend. 3. erode. 5. ravage, pillage, plunder, sack, spoil, despoil. 10. decline, perish, wane, decay. 12. dissipation. 14. diminution, decline, emaciation, consumption. 15. spoliation, desolation. 19. See desert1. 24. rubbish, trash. 36. See ravage. 28. ruined, ghostly, destroyed. 29. unused, useless, extra.
—Antonyms 1. save.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| waste
(wāst) Pronunciation Key
v. wast·ed, wast·ing, wastes v. tr.
v. intr.
n.
adj.
[Middle English wasten, from Old North French waster, from Latin vāstāre, to make empty, from vāstus, empty; see euə- in Indo-European roots.] Synonyms: These verbs mean to spend or expend without restraint and often to no avail: wasted my inheritance; blew a fortune at the casino; time and money that was consumed in litigation; dissipated their energies in pointless argument; frittering away her entire allowance; squandered his talent on writing jingles. |
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| wast·ing
(wā'stĭng) Pronunciation Key
adj.
wast'ing·ly adv. |
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WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| wasting | |
noun | |
| 1. | any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease [syn: cachexia] |
| 2. | a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [syn: atrophy] |
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The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| waste
(wāst) Pronunciation Key
Noun
An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product. See also hazardous waste, landfill.
Verb
To lose or cause to lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor, as by the progressive effects of a disease such as metastatic cancer.
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Emaciation.
wasting adj.
- Gradually deteriorating; declining.
- Sapping the strength or substance of the body, as a disease; emaciating.
Emaciation.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Wasting
Wast"ing\, a. Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
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