wasting

wasting
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Wasting — could also mean unefficient and/or uneffective consumption. See waste. In medical circles, wasting refers to the process by which a debilitating disease causes muscle and fat tissue to waste away. Wasting is sometimes referred to as acute… …   Wikipedia

  • Wasting — Wast ing, a. Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. [1913 Webster] {Wasting palsy} (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See under {Progressive}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • wasting — [wās′tiŋ] adj. 1. desolating; destructive [a wasting war] 2. destructive to health [wasting disease] wastingly adv …   English World dictionary

  • wasting — index decadent, deleterious, fatal, waste Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • wasting — 1. SYN: emaciation. 2. Denoting a disease characterized by emaciation. salt w. inappropriately large renal excretion of salt despite the apparent need of the body to retain it. * * * wast·ing wā stiŋ …   Medical dictionary

  • wasting — wastingly, adv. wastingness, n. /way sting/, adj. 1. gradually reducing the fullness and strength of the body: a wasting disease. 2. laying waste; devastating; despoiling: the ravages of a wasting war. n. 3. Geol. See mass wasting. [1200 50; ME;… …   Universalium

  • wasting — wast|ing [ˈweıstıŋ] adj 1.) wasting disease/illness formal a disease that gradually makes you thinner and weaker 2.) wasting asset technical a property, business etc that is losing money ▪ The airline is clearly a wasting asset …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • wasting — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun Wasting is used after these nouns: ↑muscle {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} adj. Wasting is used with these nouns: ↑asset …   Collocations dictionary

  • wasting — adjective wasting disease a wasting disease is one that gradually makes you become thinner and weaker …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • wasting — un·wasting; wasting; …   English syllables

  • wasting — wast•ing [[t]ˈweɪ stɪŋ[/t]] adj. 1) gradually reducing the fullness and strength of the body: a wasting disease[/ex] 2) laying waste; devastating: a wasting war[/ex] • Etymology: 1200–50 wast′ing•ly, adv. wast′ing•ness, n …   From formal English to slang

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