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Webster 1913 Edition


Wasting

Wast′ing

,
Adj.
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing;
as, a
wasting
disease; a
wasting
fortune.
Wasting palsy
(Med.)
,
progressive muscular atrophy. See under
Progressive
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Wasting

WASTING

,
ppr.
1.
Lavishing prodigally; expending or consuming without use; diminishing by slow dissipation; desolating; laying waste.
Wasting and relentless war has made ravages, with but few and short intermissions, from the days of the tyrant Nimrod down to the Nimrod of our own age.
2.
a. Diminishing by dissipation or by great destruction; as a wasting disease.

Definition 2024


wasting

wasting

English

Adjective

wasting (not comparable)

  1. Causing a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass.

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Derived terms

Verb

wasting

  1. present participle of waste

Noun

wasting (plural wastings)

  1. Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
    muscular wastings
  2. The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.