Wasting
['weɪstɪŋ] or ['westɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waste
(a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
Checker: Spenser
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Decay, decline, consumption, marasmus, emaciation, atrophy, tabes, PHTHISIS.
Edited by Bessie
Examples
- Devilish cold,' he added pettishly, 'standing at that door, wasting one's time with such seedy vagabonds! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Not once; but I assure you she is wasting. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her thinness seemed to be the effect of some wasting fire within her, which found a vent in her gaunt eyes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- That's the worst of it--people say she isn't wasting her time! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Our chance of catching the thieves may depend on our not wasting one unnecessary minute. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I HAVE lingered thus long on the extreme bank, the wasting shoal that stretched into the stream of life, dallying with the shadow of death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What's the use of our wasting another year? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Stillmenial and distasteful as they were, my mental pain was far more wasting and wearing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Behind evil there is power, and it is folly,--wasting and disappointing folly,--to ignore this power because it has found an evil issue. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One may call it that, though really it can hardly be called wasting them, because there were always plenty of kings in those days, and to spare. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But experience shows, I believe, that it is a fruitless conflict and a wasting enthusiasm. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But, in the detail which he gave you of them, he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured, wasting in impotent passions. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Then what are you wasting your time for here? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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