Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Gradually deteriorating; declining.
- adjective Sapping the strength, energy, or substance of the body; emaciating.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Laying waste; devastating; despoiling.
- Gradually reducing the bodily plumpness and strength; enfeebling; emaciating: as, a wasting disease.
- noun In medicine, atrophy.
- noun In stone-cutting, the process or operation of chipping off fragments from a block of stone with a pick or point, for the purpose of reducing the faces to an approximately plane surface. Stone so worked is said to be wasted off. Compare
clowring .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing
- adjective (Med.) progressive muscular atrophy. See under
Progressive .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Referring to something that cause a
waste , particularly awasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass. - verb Present participle of
waste .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
- noun any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
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Examples
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In _The boy wasting his time does not study_, the words _wasting his time_ form an adjective phrase modifying _boy_.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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"And so it is," I insisted to the Man of Wrath, when he protested against what he called wasting my time upstairs.
Elizabeth and Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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The first was a comment he made discouraging major corporations from what he described as wasting money by holding conventions in Las Vegas while accepting bail-out cash.
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What Republicans are wasting is an opportunity for Democrats, who might have reservations against this pick, to fight internally.
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And Obama has pushed Congress to hand more money to a failed industry that is efficient and reliable only in wasting billions of public dollars.
Harvey Wasserman: A Solar Victory and Military Defeat at the White House Harvey Wasserman 2010
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It goes something like this: You see, the money we're wasting is in a special pot that can be spent only on frills.
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And Obama has pushed Congress to hand more money to a failed industry that is efficient and reliable only in wasting billions of public dollars.
Harvey Wasserman: A Solar Victory and Military Defeat at the White House Harvey Wasserman 2010
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Waste in wasting time and electrons to publish this garbage online.
There are *8* Congressional Districts in Maryland. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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And Obama has pushed Congress to hand more money to a failed industry that is efficient and reliable only in wasting billions of public dollars.
Harvey Wasserman: A Solar Victory and Military Defeat at the White House Harvey Wasserman 2010
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And Obama has pushed Congress to hand more money to a failed industry that is efficient and reliable only in wasting billions of public dollars.
Harvey Wasserman: A Solar Victory and Military Defeat at the White House Harvey Wasserman 2010
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