wasting
Americanadjective
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gradually reducing the fullness and strength of the body.
a wasting disease.
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laying waste; devastating; despoiling.
the ravages of a wasting war.
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonwasting adjective
- wastingly adverb
- wastingness noun
Etymology
Origin of wasting
Example Sentences
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López believed that Hollywood was wasting her friend’s talents and promised to cast her as a more complex and interesting character.
From Los Angeles Times
This second pathway is especially significant because it suggests a way to control magnetic states quickly and efficiently without wasting energy as heat.
From Science Daily
This was so not a good start to things, and even as we ran, I couldn’t stop thinking about how much time this was wasting—time we didn’t have.
From Literature
To some degree, American and Israeli air superiority is a wasting asset.
Like any consumer, boomers who want to avoid wasting money can consider tracking and analyzing expenses and cutting back on expenses that don’t actually improve their quality of life.
From MarketWatch
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