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wasting    音标拼音: [w'estɪŋ]
a. 浪费的,消耗的

浪费的,消耗的

wasting
n 1: any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and
mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease [synonym:
{cachexia}, {cachexy}, {wasting}]
2: a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
[synonym: {atrophy}, {wasting}, {wasting away}]

Waste \Waste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wasting}.] [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F.
g[^a]ter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr.
vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but
influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosten, G.
w["u]sten, AS. w[=e]stan. See {Waste}, a.]
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1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
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Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted,
Art made a mirror to behold my plight. --Spenser.
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The Tiber
Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
--Dryden.
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2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish
by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear
out.
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Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
--Num. xiv.
33.
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O, were I able
To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! --Milton.
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Here condemned
To waste eternal days in woe and pain. --Milton.
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Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of
age daily grew on him. --Robertson.
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3. 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.
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The younger son gathered all together, and . . .
wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv.
13.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray.
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4. (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate,
voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc.,
to go to decay.
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Syn: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.
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Wasting \Wast"ing\, a.
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a
wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
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{Wasting palsy} (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See
under {Progressive}.
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188 Moby Thesaurus words for "wasting":
Sanforizing, abscess, aging, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia,
apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attenuation,
backache, baneful, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy,
calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, chill, chills,
chronic ill health, colic, coming apart, constipation, consuming,
consumption, consumptive, convulsion, coughing, cracking,
crumbling, cyanosis, deadly, debilitation, debility, decadent,
declining, decrepitude, degenerate, delicacy, delicate health,
demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying,
destructive, deteriorating, devastating, diarrhea, disastrous,
disintegrating, dizziness, doomful, doting, draining, drooping,
dropsy, drying, drying up, dwindling, dysentery, dyspepsia,
dyspnea, ebbing, edema, effete, emaceration, emaciation,
enervation, exhaustion, fading, failing, fainting, falling, fatal,
fateful, fatigue, feebleness, fever, fibrillation, flagging, flux,
fragility, fragmenting, frailty, fratricidal, getting on,
going to pieces, growing old, growth, healthlessness, hemorrhage,
high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypochondria,
hypochondriasis, hypotension, icterus, ill health, indigestion,
infirmity, inflammation, insomnia, internecine, invalidism,
invalidity, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, languishing,
languishment, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, marcescent,
morbidity, morbidness, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, nihilist,
nihilistic, pain, paralysis, parching, peakedness, pining,
poor health, preshrinkage, pruritus, rash, ravaging, regressive,
retrograde, retrogressive, rheum, ruining, ruinous, sclerosis,
searing, seizure, self-destructive, senescent, shock, shrinkage,
shrinking, shriveling, sickliness, sinking, skin eruption, sliding,
slipping, slumping, sneezing, sore, spasm, subsiding,
subversionary, subversive, suicidal, tabes, tabetic, tachycardia,
thinning, tumor, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesomeness,
upset stomach, valetudinarianism, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic,
vertigo, vomiting, waning, wasteful, weakliness, wilting,
withering, worsening


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