Wasting

What do we mean by wasting?

Gradually deteriorating; declining. adjective

Sapping the strength, energy, or substance of the body; emaciating. adjective

Laying waste; devastating; despoiling.

Gradually reducing the bodily plumpness and strength; enfeebling; emaciating: as, a wasting disease.

In medicine, atrophy. noun

In stone-cutting, the process or operation of chipping off fragments from a block of stone with a pick or point, for the purpose of reducing the faces to an approximately plane surface. Stone so worked is said to be wasted off. Compare clowring. noun

Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing adjective

Progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive. adjective

Referring to something that cause a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass. adjective

Present participle of waste. verb

A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse noun

Any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease noun

To devastate, destroy

To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.

To kill; to murder.

To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.

To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

When you drink so much that you have gone beyond the point of wasted, including puking and a major hangover the next day Urban Dictionary

To be EXTREMELY intoxicated from the use of alcohol or drugs. See stoned, high, enke, drunk. Urban Dictionary

Slang for getting intoxicated through the use of alcohol, marijuana or the sort or Slang for get shot to death or murdered. Urban Dictionary

1. An adjective to describe a person who has the characteristics of a mean and selfish person. 2. Also can be used to describe a crappy event/happening. Urban Dictionary

To be very intoxicated from the use of alcohol or drugs. Urban Dictionary

To spill a substance on something. Background: first overheard at the Taste of Chicago 2004. Urban Dictionary

Spilling an item Urban Dictionary

If something is waste it is poor/bad. Somehing you didn't enjoy. Urban Dictionary

To bring to a specific state by drinking alcoholic liquors, or other drugs. Urban Dictionary

If you aren't the day is. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to wasting:
wasting, casting, lasting, waiting, fasting, wanting, washing, easting, tasting, pasting, basting, wafting, hasting, westing, masting, gasting, walting, wisting, waisting, wating.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word wasting:
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Words that rhyme with wasting:
tasting, pasting, basting, lambasting, hasting, face stung, spray stung, waist hung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe wasting:
time, muscular, renal, mass, salt, progressive, severe, rapid, general, muscle, gradual, potassium, wide, marked, extreme, much, slow, cerebral, distal, generalized, considerable, slight, chronic, associated, proximal, urinary, temporal, significant, skeletal, obvious, gross, fat, worth, peripheral, excessive, profound, sodium, energy, non, extensive, moderate, money, subsequent, consequent, symmetrical, induced, related, mild, thenar, daily, rude, tubular, space, unilateral, diffuse, bilateral, down, focal, all, characteristic, intrinsic, facial, life, apparent, visible, bicarbonate, tissue, sludge, sore, continual, aids, ink, widespread, eventual, continued, acquired.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective wasting:
time, diseases, assets, palsy, disease, asset, sickness, deposits.

Consonant match to wasting:
worsting, westing, waist hung.

Words that sound like wasting:
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