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wasting

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?we?st??/
  • Rhymes: -e?st??

Verb

wasting

  1. present participle of waste

Adjective

wasting (not comparable)

  1. Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.

Derived terms

  • wasting disease

Translations

Noun

wasting (countable and uncountable, plural wastings)

  1. Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
  2. The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.

Translations

Anagrams

  • stawing, tawings, tawsing

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waisting

English

Etymology

waist +? -ing

Noun

waisting (plural waistings)

  1. That which goes at the waist (of a person, as on a garment, or of an object).
    The decorative material used as waisting also served as a girdle for her midlife expansion.
  2. A failure in mechanical testing, where part of the testpiece becomes narrow.

Usage notes

  • Often a misspelling of wasting.

Anagrams

  • waitings

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