DICTOMETER

WASTING

1. Synonyms:
   • Cachexia
   • Cachexy
   • Wasting
   Definitions:
   • any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Atrophy
   • Wasting
   • Wasting away
   Definitions:
   • a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   • Blow
   • Squander
   Definitions:
   • spend thoughtlessly
   • throw away
   Examples:
   • He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
   • You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
   Antonyms:
   conserve, husband, economize, economise
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   Definitions:
   • use inefficiently or inappropriately
   Examples:
   • Waste heat
   • Waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   Definitions:
   • get rid of
   Examples:
   • We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   • Run off
   Definitions:
   • run off as waste
   Examples:
   • The water wastes back into the ocean
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Neutralize
   • Neutralise
   • Liquidate
   • Waste
   • Knock off
   • Do in
   Definitions:
   • get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
   Examples:
   • The mafia liquidated the informer
   • The double agent was neutralized
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Consume
   • Squander
   • Waste
   • Ware
   Definitions:
   • spend extravagantly
   Examples:
   • Waste not, want not
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Pine away
   • Waste
   • Languish
   Definitions:
   • lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
   Examples:
   • After her husband died, she just pined away
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   • Emaciate
   • Macerate
   Definitions:
   • cause to grow thin or weak
   Examples:
   • The treatment emaciated him
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Lay waste to
   • Waste
   • Devastate
   • Desolate
   • Ravage
   • Scourge
   Definitions:
   • cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
   Examples:
   • The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Waste
    • Rot
    Definitions:
    • become physically weaker
    Examples:
    • Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world