1. wasting(n = noun.state) cachexia, cachexy - any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease;
is a kind of debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism
Derived form verb waste8
2. wasting(n = noun.state) atrophy, wasting away - a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse;
is a kind of symptom
has particulars: amyotrophia, amyotrophy, tabes, kraurosis
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. [1913 Webster]
N waste, consumption, expenditure, exhaustion, dispersion, ebb, leakage, loss, wear and tear, waste, prodigality, misuse, wasting, rubbish, mountain in labor, wasted, at a low ebb, wasteful, penny wise and pound foolish, magno conatu magnas nugas, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle, idly busy rolls their world away.