wasting

wasting /'westiɳ/
  • danh từ
    • sự tàn phá, sự phá hoại
    • sự hao mòn dần
    • tính từ
      • tàn phá, phá hoại
        • a wasting storm: một trận bão tàn phá
      • làm hao mòn dần
        • a wasting disease: một bệnh làm hao mòn dần sức khoẻ
        • a wasting care: mối lo lắng mòn mỏi
    Lĩnh vực: xây dựng
     sự đẽo thô các tảng đá (để phác hình)
    wasting paralysis
     teo cơ tăng tiến

    Xem thêm: cachexia, cachexy, atrophy, wasting away, waste material, waste matter, waste product, wastefulness, dissipation, thriftlessness, wastefulness, barren, wasteland, permissive waste, blow, squander, run off, neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, knock off, do in, consume, squander, ware, pine away, languish, emaciate, macerate, lay waste to, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge, rot, desert, godforsaken, wild



    wasting

    Từ điển WordNet

      n.

    • any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease; cachexia, cachexy
    • a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse; atrophy, wasting away

      n.

    • any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; waste material, waste matter, waste product

      they collect the waste once a week

      much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers

    • useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; wastefulness, dissipation

      if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste

      mindless dissipation of natural resources

    • the trait of wasting resources; thriftlessness, wastefulness

      a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste

      the wastefulness of missed opportunities

    • an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; barren, wasteland

      the barrens of central Africa

      the trackless wastes of the desert

    • (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect; permissive waste

      v.

    • spend thoughtlessly; throw away; blow, squander

      He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends

      You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree

    • use inefficiently or inappropriately

      waste heat

      waste a joke on an unappreciative audience

    • get rid of

      We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer

    • run off as waste; run off

      The water wastes back into the ocean

    • get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, knock off, do in

      The mafia liquidated the informer

      the double agent was neutralized

    • spend extravagantly; consume, squander, ware

      waste not, want not

    • lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; pine away, languish

      After her husband died, she just pined away

    • cause to grow thin or weak; emaciate, macerate

      The treatment emaciated him

    • devastate or ravage; lay waste to, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge

      The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

    • waste away; rot

      Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world

      adj.

    • located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; desert, godforsaken, wild

      a desert island

      a godforsaken wilderness crossroads

      a wild stretch of land

      waste places

    English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


    syn.: atrophy cachexia cachexy wasting away    wastes|wasted|wasting
    syn.: consume dregs exhaust garbage refuse rubbish spend squander use up
    ant.: save