[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

waste \waste\, v. t. imp.  p. p. wasted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   wasting. oe. wasten, of. waster, guaster, gaster, f.
   g^ater 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"usten, as. w=estan. see waste, a.
   1913 webster
   1. to bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
      1913 webster

            thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted,
            art made a mirror to behold my plight. --spenser.
      1913 webster

            the tiber
            insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. to wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish
      by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear
      out.
      1913 webster

            until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
                                                  --num. xiv.
                                                  33.
      1913 webster

            o, were i able
            to waste it all myself, and leave ye none --milton.
      1913 webster

            here condemned
            to waste eternal days in woe and pain. --milton.
      1913 webster

            wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of
            age daily grew on him.                --robertson.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            the younger son gathered all together, and . . .
            wasted his substance with riotous living. --luke xv.
                                                  13.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

   syn: to squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.
        1913 webster
see also:
wasted wasting waste 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wasting \wast"ing\, a.
   causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a
   wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
   1913 webster

   wasting palsy med., progressive muscular atrophy. see
      under progressive.
      1913 webster
see also:
wasting palsy progressive 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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