wasting English

Meaning wasting meaning

What does wasting mean?

wasting

— noun (= atrophy) a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

— noun (= cachexia) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease

Synonyms wasting synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as wasting?

wasting English » English

squandering

waste

cachexia

atrophy

wearisome

wasting away

spoiling

perishing

extravagance

declining

decaying

cachexy

withering

wearer

wastefulness

wastage

spoiler

ruinous

prodigality

maceration

lessening

lavishment

gruelling

fading away

exhausting

emaciation

devastating

destroying

deleterious

decrease

decline

decayed

decay

corrosive

consuming

back-breaking

Topics wasting topics

What do people use wasting to talk about?

Person Healthy

Disease

• What words describe a type of disease?
  acute chronic bacterial complication critical curable degenerative genetic morbid nervous neuromuscular psychosomatic virus wasting