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wasting 名詞
消瘦,消耗,消耗性的
Waste, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wasting.]
1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted,
Art made a mirror to behold my plight. --Spenser.
The Tiber
Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds. --Dryden.
2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. --Num. xiv. 33.
O, were I able
To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! --Milton.
Here condemned
To waste eternal days in woe and pain. --Milton.
Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him. --Robertson.
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.
The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv. 13.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray.
4. Law To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
Syn: -- To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.
Wast·ing, a. Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
Wasting palsy Med., progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
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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]