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  Wasting \Wast"ing\, a.
     Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a
     wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
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     Wasting palsy (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See
        under Progressive.
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  Waste \Waste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Wasting.] [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F.
     g[^a]ter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr.
     vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but
     influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosten, G.
     w["u]sten, AS. w[=e]stan. See Waste, a.]
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     1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
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              Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted,
              Art made a mirror to behold my plight. --Spenser.
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              The Tiber
              Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish
        by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear
        out.
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              Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
                                                    --Num. xiv.
                                                    33.
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              O, were I able
              To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! --Milton.
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              Here condemned
              To waste eternal days in woe and pain. --Milton.
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              Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of
              age daily grew on him.                --Robertson.
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     3. To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ
        prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to
        useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause
        to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
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              The younger son gathered all together, and . . .
              wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv.
                                                    13.
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              Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
              And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray.
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     4. (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate,
        voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc.,
        to go to decay.
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     Syn: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.
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  Waste \Waste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Wasting.] [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F.
     g[^a]ter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr.
     vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but
     influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosten, G.
     w["u]sten, AS. w[=e]stan. See Waste, a.]
     1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
  
              Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted,
              Art made a mirror to behold my plight. --Spenser.
  
              The Tiber Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful
              grounds.                              --Dryden.
  
     2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish
        by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear
        out.
  
              Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
                                                    --Num. xiv.
                                                    33.
  
              O, were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye
              none!                                 --Milton.
  
              Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and
              pain.                                 --Milton.
  
              Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of
              age daily grew on him.                --Robertson.
  
     3. To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ
        prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to
        useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause
        to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
  
              The younger son gathered all together, and . . .
              wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv.
                                                    13.
  
              Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And
              waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray.
  
     4. (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate,
        voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc.,
        to go to decay.
  
     Syn: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.

  Wasting \Wast"ing\, a.
     Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a
     wasting disease; a wasting fortune.

  wasting
       n 1: any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and
            mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease [syn:
             cachexia, cachexy]
       2: a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
          [syn: atrophy, wasting away]

  wasting
     a.
     Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body
  mass.
     n.
     1 Gradual deterioration or waste away.
     2 The act by which something is lay waste; destruction.
     vb.
     (present participle of en waste nocat=1)

  wasting
     a.
     Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body
  mass.
     n.
     1 Gradual deterioration or waste away.
     2 The act by which something is lay waste; destruction.
     vb.
     (present participle of en waste nocat=1)

  wasting
     a.
     Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body
  mass.
     n.
     1 Gradual deterioration or waste away.
     2 The act by which something is lay waste; destruction.
     vb.
     (present participle of en waste nocat=1)

  wasting
     a.
     Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body
  mass.
     n.
     1 Gradual deterioration or waste away.
     2 The act by which something is lay waste; destruction.
     vb.
     (present participle of en waste nocat=1)

  wasting
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm w ast ing e)

  wasting
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en waste ordform=prespart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb waste)

  Wasting /wˈeɪstɪŋ/
  الإهدار

  wasting //ˈweɪstɪŋ// 
  опустошителен

  wasting /wˈeɪstɪŋ/ 
  plýtvání

  wasting /wˈeɪstɪŋ/ 
  plýtvaný

  wasting /wˈeɪstɪŋ/
  umbringend, ums Leben bringend, um die Ecke bringend, abmurksend, kaltmachend, allemachend
     Synonyms: doing in, doing away, bumping off, offing, putting away, icing, whacking
  
   see: do in sb., do away with sb., bump off sb., off sb., put away sb., ice sb., waste sb., whack sb., done in, done away, bumped off, offed, put away, iced, wasted, whacked
  

  wasting /wˈeɪstɪŋ/
  umkommend, verderbend
   see: waste, go to waste, wasted
  

  wasting /wˈeɪstɪŋ/
  verbrauchend, verzehrend, schwächend
   see: waste sth., wasted, wastes, wasted
  

  wasting /wˈeɪstɪŋ/
  verschwendend, vergeudend
     Synonym: spaffing
  
   see: waste sth., spaff sth., wasted, spaffed, he/she wastes, wasted time, waste no time, Don't waste tears on him, he isn't worth it., I won't waste any more of my time on this nonsense., Don't waste my precious time playing childish games!
  

  wasting /wˈeɪstɪŋ/
  1. sorvasztó
  2. tékozló
  3. tönkretevô
  4. pazarlás
  5. pazarló
  6. pusztító
  7. sorvadás

  
/ˈweɪstɪŋ/

  188 Moby Thesaurus words for "wasting":
     Sanforizing, abscess, aging, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia,
     apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attenuation,
     backache, baneful, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy,
     calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, chill, chills,
     chronic ill health, colic, coming apart, constipation, consuming,
     consumption, consumptive, convulsion, coughing, cracking,
     crumbling, cyanosis, deadly, debilitation, debility, decadent,
     declining, decrepitude, degenerate, delicacy, delicate health,
     demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying,
     destructive, deteriorating, devastating, diarrhea, disastrous,
     disintegrating, dizziness, doomful, doting, draining, drooping,
     dropsy, drying, drying up, dwindling, dysentery, dyspepsia,
     dyspnea, ebbing, edema, effete, emaceration, emaciation,
     enervation, exhaustion, fading, failing, fainting, falling, fatal,
     fateful, fatigue, feebleness, fever, fibrillation, flagging, flux,
     fragility, fragmenting, frailty, fratricidal, getting on,
     going to pieces, growing old, growth, healthlessness, hemorrhage,
     high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypochondria,
     hypochondriasis, hypotension, icterus, ill health, indigestion,
     infirmity, inflammation, insomnia, internecine, invalidism,
     invalidity, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, languishing,
     languishment, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, marcescent,
     morbidity, morbidness, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, nihilist,
     nihilistic, pain, paralysis, parching, peakedness, pining,
     poor health, preshrinkage, pruritus, rash, ravaging, regressive,
     retrograde, retrogressive, rheum, ruining, ruinous, sclerosis,
     searing, seizure, self-destructive, senescent, shock, shrinkage,
     shrinking, shriveling, sickliness, sinking, skin eruption, sliding,
     slipping, slumping, sneezing, sore, spasm, subsiding,
     subversionary, subversive, suicidal, tabes, tabetic, tachycardia,
     thinning, tumor, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesomeness,
     upset stomach, valetudinarianism, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic,
     vertigo, vomiting, waning, wasteful, weakliness, wilting,
     withering, worsening
  
  

  vbl. 浪费,消耗;

     a. 浪费的,消耗的