wasting: Meaning and Definition of

wast•ing

Pronunciation: (wā'sting), [key]
— 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.
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