Wasting

King James Dictionary

Wasting, ppr.

1. Lavishing prodigally expending or consuming without use diminishing by slow dissipation desolating laying waste.

Wasting and relentless war has made ravages, with but few and short intermissions, from the days of the tyrant Nimrod down to the Nimrod of our own age.

2. a. Diminishing by dissipation or by great destruction as a wasting disease.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waste

(2): ( a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.