Unscramble wasting

Definition of wasting

noun:

• any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease. Synonyms: cachexia, cachexy.
• a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse. Synonyms: atrophy, wasting away.

verb:

• spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends", "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree". Synonyms: blow, squander, waste. Antonyms: conserve.
• use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat", "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience". Synonyms: waste.
• get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer". Synonyms: waste.
• run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean". Synonyms: run off, waste.
• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer", "the double agent was neutralized". Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize, waste.
• spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not". Synonyms: consume, squander, ware, waste.
• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away". Synonyms: languish, pine away, waste.
• cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him". Synonyms: emaciate, macerate, waste.
• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion". Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste.
• become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world". Synonyms: rot, waste.

Related words

amyotrophia, amyotrophy, burn, dissipate, fling, fool, fritter, gangrene, kraurosis, lavish, luxuriate, mortify, necrose, overspend, ruin, shoot, shower, sphacelate, splurge, tabes, wanton.

Words nearby

basting, casting, fasting, lasting, tasting, waiting, wanting, washing.

Rhymes with

basting, tasting.