Synonyms for wasting
ˈweɪ stɪŋwast·ing

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1. cachexia, cachexy, wastingnoun

   any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease

   Synonyms:
   cachexia, atrophy, cachexy, wasting away

2. atrophy, wasting, wasting awaynoun

   a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

   Synonyms:
   cachexia, withering, cachexy, wasting away, atrophy

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1. • Debility
   • Symptom

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1. wastingnoun

   Synonyms:
   decay, decline, consumption, marasmus, emaciation, atrophy, tabes, PHTHISIS

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1. wastingnoun

   Synonyms:
   squandering, dissipation, prodigality, improvidence, emaciation, decline

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1. List of paraphrases for "wasting":

   waste, losing, atrophy, emaciation, wastage, squandering, lose, debilitating, wastefulness

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1. Arthur Rimbaud:

   I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

2. H.L. Nick Harvey:

   If you are not putting water on the flames, then you are wasting water.

3. Dr. Laura Schlessinger:

   the way we honor the dead is by living well...if we spend our lives never allowing ourselves to be hapy we are wasting what they lost." my hubby & I just this on fb last week & LOVE it!! thankx :)

4. Donald Trump:

   We gotta win Iowa, we gotta win it. Okay so we're going to win it, okay? Otherwise we’re wasting our time, folks.

5. Donald Trump:

   If we don't get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time, and that toughness includes the death penalty.