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wasting away

NOUN
  1. a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

How To Use wasting away In A Sentence

  • Look at you, you're wasting away and you're too scared to go run back home.
  • The meat at the base of the neck was "basted" with chambira, to prevent its wearing and wasting away by handling in the succeeding operations. Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure
  • I have to be reassured by my wife that I am not wasting away, a bit like ‘does my bum look big in this?’
  • He's wasting away, and there's nothing the healers can do.
  • We will have to feed you up Juliet you are quite wasting away
  • He looks down on himself as an old worthless man that's wasting away his last few years.
  • This wasting away in the trenches, you don't think it's a bit unbecoming ? THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
  • But before he can do that, Emily, who has been wasting away--criminy, it's a nineteenth-century novel; what did you expect? Protestant Truths and Roman Catholic Errors: Part II of II
  • Although the idea of him slowly wasting away painfully is more appealing to me. Balloon Juice » 2004 » October
  • He very convincingly portrayed a man struggling against a disease that meant he was wasting away in order to get something of extreme importance done.
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