- desolating; destructive: a wasting war
- destructive to health: wasting disease
wasting
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wasting
adjective
- Gradually deteriorating; declining: the wasting process of erosion.
- Sapping the strength, energy, or substance of the body; emaciating: a wasting disease.
Related Forms:
- wast′ing·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(not comparable)
- Referring to something that cause a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass.
Verb
- Present participle of waste.
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