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wasting

[ wey-sting ]
/ ˈweɪ stɪŋ /
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adjective
gradually reducing the fullness and strength of the body: a wasting disease.
laying waste; devastating; despoiling: the ravages of a wasting war.
noun
Geology. mass wasting.
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Origin of wasting

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

OTHER WORDS FROM wasting

wast·ing·ly, adverbwast·ing·ness, nounnon·wast·ing, adjective, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for wasting

wasting
/ (ˈweɪstɪŋ) /

adjective
(prenominal) reducing the vitality, strength, or robustness of the bodya wasting disease

Derived forms of wasting

wastingly, adverb
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