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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Officers potentially wasting thousands of hours in pursuit of car backfires and construction noise mislabeled as gunfire has not deterred the New York Police Department from continuing to use it.
From Salon
L.A. has always been Amoeba for me, just in terms of I love wasting hours in a store that has a deep bench for every section of music that I’m interested in.
From Los Angeles Times
He knew that the longer he took, the more energy he was wasting, and Bixby Alexander Tam did not like to waste energy.
From Literature
We had the same fight every time we saw each other, Olka wasting our valuable time together by begging me to leave.
From Literature
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
From Literature
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