Overview of noun wasting

The noun wasting has 2 senses

• cachexia, cachexy, wasting -- (any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease)


• atrophy, wasting, wasting away -- (a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse)

Overview of verb waste

The verb waste has 10 senses

• waste, blow, squander -- (spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree")


• waste -- (use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience")


• waste -- (get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer")


• waste, run off -- (run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean")


• neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in -- (get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized")


• consume, squander, waste, ware -- (spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not")


• pine away, waste, languish -- (lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away")


• waste, emaciate, macerate -- (cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him")


• lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge -- (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion")


• waste, rot -- (become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world")