to waste
- verb
- /weɪst/
- But neither of them want to see their lover waste away, so they have to live in separate worlds.
- waste away
- muscle wasting
- wasted body
Examples
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Kathleen stood up, and I saw that her always small frame was now wasted further by abuse.
Fiction book (1994) -
You're wasting away.
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Would you lie there and waste away, or would you try and get up?
Fiction book (1994) -
Her half-crippled mom is out there wasting away in that nursing home.
Fiction book (1993) -
I'm wasting away!
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As he battled the illness, his body began to waste away from lack of proper nutrition.
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After months of neglect, the once vibrant plant started to waste away due to insufficient care.
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The patient was wasting away, prompting the doctors to intervene with a special feeding plan.
Synonyms
To become weak and sick over time, often from illness or neglect
To become weak and lose energy because of neglect or sadness
To become smaller and weaker, especially muscles, from not being used
To become weak and thin because of sickness or not eating enough
Become weak and thin because you miss someone or something
To make someone very thin and weak because of illness or lack of food
To make a person or animal very thin and weak by not eating enough
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
To spend time doing things that are not useful instead of doing something more useful
Compounds
- Specialized
Radioactive material from medical tests and hospital procedures that has low radiation and needs safe handling
- Specialized
Highly radioactive material left after nuclear fuel is used that needs safe storage for a long time
A thing like time or money that is completely useless and gives no benefit
- Specialized
Poisonous waste from factories that can harm people and nature
- Offensive
A rude phrase for something completely pointless and not worth your time
- Specialized
A place where people dump poisonous materials that must be cleaned because they can harm people or nature
- Specialized
A machine that presses waste like cardboard or plastic into tight bundles for easier handling
- Specialized
A large shallow pond that treats sewage using sunlight and bacteria and algae
How Thin
Surface Forms
Etymology
Waste as in 'waste away' comes from the old idea of being destroyed or lost (from wāstan), so to waste in this sense is to slowly become weak or thin as if being worn away.