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Wasting

wasting
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
(Science: medicine) Wasting palsy, progressive muscular atrophy. See Progressive.
A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse.


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