wasting

[ wey-sting ]
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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.

Origin of wasting

1
1200–50; Middle English; see waste, -ing2, -ing1

Other words from wasting

  • wast·ing·ly, adverb
  • wast·ing·ness, noun
  • non·wast·ing, adjective, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for wasting

wasting

/ (ˈweɪstɪŋ) /


adjective
  1. (prenominal) reducing the vitality, strength, or robustness of the body: a wasting disease

Derived forms of wasting

  • wastingly, adverb

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