Word Finder - wasting

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To devastate, destroy

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To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.

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We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.

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To kill; to murder.

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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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Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.

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To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.

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To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

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Gradual deterioration or wasting away.

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muscular wastings

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The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.

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Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.

Why are you wasting your time with me?

No point in wasting energy screaming now.

My chief says for us not to break our butts wasting any more time chasing him down.

The height and massiveness of the mountains decrease to the south-west, where the piedmont belt sweeps westward around them in western Georgia and eastern Alabama Some of the residual mountains hereabouts are reduced to a mere skeleton or framework by the retrogressive penetration of widening valleys between wasting spurs; the very type of vanishing forms, Certain districts within the mountains, apparently consisting of less resistant crystalline rocks, have been reduced to basin-like peneplains in the same time that served only to grade the slopes and subdue the summits of the neighboring mountains of more resistant rocks; the best example of this kind is the Asheville peneplain in North Carolina, measuring about 40 by 20 m.

You're wasting the best years of your life for them.

It is said to be increased in saccharine diabetes and to be greatly diminished in starvation and wasting diseases.

He slowly retired before the English monarch, driving off all supplies and wasting the country.

The Athenians retaliated by attacking Methone (which was secured by Brasidas), by successes in the West, by expelling all Aeginetans from Aegina (which was made a cleruchy), and by wasting the Megarid.

In 430 Archidamus again invaded Attica, systematically wasting the country.

Avoid wasting time on a grant that does not apply to your organization's needs.

I'm wasting my breath.

This moving is expensive, because it has to be done, or at least guided, by hand, and it takes up much time, during which both heat and iron are wasting.

In the meanwhile Tissaphernes began to play a double game with the object of wasting the strength of the combatants.

The procedure in scientific excavation is directed to collecting and interpreting all the information that can he obtained from the excavation as to the history and nature of the site explored, be it town, temple, house, cemetery or individual grave, wasting no evidence that results from it touching the endless problems which scientific archaeology affordswhether in regard to arts and crafts, manners and customs, language, history or beliefs.

Thus there may be hyperaesthesia, anaesthesia, paralysis, or alterations of nutrition, such as wasting of muscles, whitening of the hair, &c.

Thomas of Woodstock, the youngest son of Edward III., took a powerful army to Calais, and marched through Picardy and Champagne, past Orleans, and finally to Rennes in Brittany, but accomplished nothing save the ruin of his own troops and the wasting of a vast sum of money.

But while the strength of France was wasting away at Puebla or Mexico, Bismarck was founding German unity.

Lead poisons the muscular and nervous systems, and gives rise to paralysis, wasting, colic and other symptoms, while in the case of mercury, tremors, salivation, anaemia and very marked cachexia are induced.

Howie was distraught over the encounter and Martha, apologetic over wasting the day.

From their point of view zero popularity is a time wasting.

According to the purposes to which they are applied, reverberatory furnaces may be classed into two groups, namely, fusion or melting furnaces, and calcining or wasting furnaces, also called calciners.

Deidre wanted to wring Gabriel's neck for wasting thousands of years with someone like this.

Olly's running and tackling livened up the midfield and the Tigers regained the ascendancy, albeit wasting the chances to score.

Six minutes were added to the match and the Rams time wasting tactics backfired as the home side drew level in added time.

Cachexia You may also hear this called ' wasting syndrome ' or ' anorexia cachexia You may also hear this called ' wasting syndrome ' or ' anorexia cachexia syndrome ' .

Robbo had a pretty good game (although he looked a bit chunky) but got booked for wasting time.

The second half was more of the same with the Huddersfield players guilty of wasting possession, perhaps looking a little dispirited.

The best thing of all however is that junk faxes can be deleted without wasting paper and ink!

What people tend to forget to mention from the increasingly feeble Tory party is that they are wasting the poor's money.

Finding my way's just so goddamned hard when every dollar buys another ounce and my whole life's wasting away.

Other things to talk about Artificial satellites use gyroscopes to orient themselves without wasting reaction mass.

So getting back to form filling stress equals lightly hod of you making errors in your documents, thus wasting paper right!

They are expensive and if the weather is rough or too hot or you have over imbibed you will be wasting your money.

The material outlines the underlying causal mechanisms of mass wasting with particular reference to the Australian landscape.

Just as we want to avoid wasting taxpayers ' precious money, so will we avoid wasting our precious land.

Shouldn't the police be catching " real " criminals rather than wasting time on law-abiding motorists?

Examination reveals profound weakness and wasting of the calf musculature.

Robbin's text on pathology also contains sections on mitochondrial myopathy, stating that this kind of muscle wasting results in severe weakness.

Discriminatory regulations often penalize resource saving over resource wasting.

Gumption from the local procurator fiscal would help, eg telling complainants to stop wasting police time and taxpayers ' money.

Removed pointless and time wasting MAD single additional atom refinement (this may need to be done for MIR too ).

They are now wasting further billions to prop up a sinking titanic of enterprise that's morally, scientifically as well as financially bankrupt.

A Normal watering can and rose took 3 gallons to fill the tumbler, wasting most again on the surrounding soil.

The meeting will probably be quite informal, but some structure is needed to avoid time wasting.

The disease caused a wasting of the body with the lungs being attacked.

Physical signs may include muscle wasting and sensory loss.

My HIV doctor said my facial wasting was simply the result of aging.

The damage of Saturn's illnesses tends toward a progressive wasting of tissue.

Figure 5 shows this form of mass wasting in operation.

They have been used to treat both moderate and severe facial wasting in a small number of people living with HIV.