Wasting

  • 61wasting trust — A trust in which the trustee may apply a part of the principal to make good a deficiency of income. Trust, the res of which consists in whole or in part of property which is gradually being consumed (i.e. consisting of wasting assets) …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 62wasting property — Property, such as an oil well, quarry, or mine, the substance of which is consumed in exploitation. See wasting assets corporation …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 63wasting away — noun a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse • Syn: ↑atrophy, ↑wasting • Derivationally related forms: ↑atrophy (for: ↑atrophy) • Hypernyms: ↑symptom …

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  • 64wasting disease — noun involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body • Syn: ↑pulmonary tuberculosis, ↑consumption, ↑phthisis, ↑white plague • Hypernyms: ↑tuberculosis, ↑TB, ↑T.B. * * * …

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  • 65wasting palsy — noun or wasting paralysis : creeping paralysis …

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  • 66wasting paralysis — noun see wasting palsy …

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  • 67wasting — Synonyms and related words: Sanforizing, abscess, aging, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attenuation, backache, baneful, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 68wasting — wast·ing || weɪstɪŋ adj. destroying, damaging; weakening, draining, exhausting; thinning weɪst n. squandering, misuse, disuse; destruction, ruin, loss; desolation, wasteland; desert; refuse, rubbish, garbage; sewage v. squander, misspend,… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 69wasting — n. Decay, decline, consumption, marasmus, emaciation, atrophy, tabes, phthisis …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 70HIV wasting syndrome — wasting s …

    Medical dictionary