wasting
adjective
1. Causing a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass.
noun
1. any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
Similar word(s): cachexia, cachexy
Definition categories: state, debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism
2. a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
Similar word(s): atrophy
Definition categories: state, symptom
Sentences with wasting as a noun:
- muscular wastings
verb
1. present participle of waste