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. African Proverb:

   Indecision is like a stepchild if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

2. 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.

3. Michele Hanisee:

   The centerpiece of Newsom's proposal would require a license to sell, and a background check just to buy, a box of ammunition, this would require the creation of another complicated, expensive and inevitably flawed database, which California officials will be unable to effectively maintain. New York already tried this approach, abandoning it after wasting millions of public dollars.

4. Tony Blair, Speech to the Labor Party Conference 3 October 1995:

   …instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities.

5. Ursula Le Guin:

   To use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it.