Etymology : Middle English, from Old North French waster, from Latin vastare, from vastus desolate, waste
Pronunciation :
Function : verb
Date : 13th century
1. destroying, damaging; weakening, draining, exhausting; thinning. wasting\wast"ing\, a. causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.wasting palsy (med.), progressive muscular atrophy. see:
under progressive.wasting n.
2. any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease [syn: cachexia, cachexy].
3. a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [syn: atrophy, wasting away].
4. Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
5. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
6. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
7. Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
8. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
9. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
10. To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
11. To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
12. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
13. To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
14. The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
15. That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
16. That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse.
17. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
18. Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
19. Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
20. Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea. useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources" reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean" get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree".
21. A wasting disease is one which makes you gradually become thinner and weaker.
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