wasting

Preposition: of

• muscle: Its more immediately striking characteristics are a wasting of the leg muscles - in beasts the hind limbs.

Converse of object

• avoid: The meeting will probably be quite informal, but some structure is needed to avoid time wasting.
• prevent: Prevent time wasting by helping the group to focus on important issues without being directive.
• cause: The disease caused a wasting of the body with the lungs being attacked.
• include: Physical signs may include muscle wasting and sensory loss.

Adjective modifier

• facial: My HIV doctor said my facial wasting was simply the result of aging.
• progressive: The damage of Saturn's illnesses tends toward a progressive wasting of tissue.
• mass: Figure 5 shows this form of mass wasting in operation.
• severe: They have been used to treat both moderate and severe facial wasting in a small number of people living with HIV.
• fat: If fat wasting develops, will switching to another drug restore the fat?

Modifies a noun

• syndrome: Cachexia You may also hear this called ' wasting syndrome ' or ' anorexia cachexia syndrome ' .
• disease: Rumors of strange wasting diseases which gave the King a craving for babies ' blood began to spread.
• asset: By attempting to squeeze more out of an inefficient employer unions are sweating a wasting asset.
• money: Housing the problem government funding for in wasting money.
• energy: Thank goodness for the Energy Ninjas, who are here to show you lots of ways we avoid wasting energy!
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Noun used with modifier

• muscle: Keep active to minimize the risk of osteoporosis & muscle wasting.
• time: Peter Finch did not spend his time wasting hours writing poetry, he sold books.
• mass: The process may also be called mass movement or mass wasting.
• money: I thought this sort of money wasting would stop when Labor was voted out.