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单词 wasting
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wastingn.

/ˈweɪstɪŋ/
Etymology: < waste v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The action of laying waste; devastation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation
harryingc900
harrowingc1000
wastinga1300
destructionc1330
harryc1330
wastenessa1382
wastitya1382
desolation1382
unroningnessa1400
wrackc1407
exile1436
havoc1480
hership1487
vastation1545
vastitude1545
sackc1550
population1552
waste1560
ravishment1570
riotingc1580
pull-down1588
desolating1591
degast1592
devastation1603
ravage1611
wracking1611
ravagement1766
herriment1787
carnage1848
wastage1909
enhavocking-
a1300 Cursor Mundi 27839 [Covetousness causes] manslaghter and suik, wasting and were.
1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 12 The same Scottes..make..burnynges murders wastinges and depopulations in this his realme.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 83 Except he had left taknes quhair he had beine in Robrie, Spoylȝie, and Waisting of the kirkes.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. iii. 4 The miserable wasting of their Country..in..Civil Wars.
1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 30 The Horrors that attend the Wasting of Kingdoms, and Sacking of Cities.
1864 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta 164 For wasting of the boar That mars with tooth and tusk and fiery feet Green pasturage [etc.]..I praise her not.
2. The action of using or spending lavishly or to no profit. †Also concrete, that which is thus wasted.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun]
overflowingnessOE
wastinga1300
prodigality1340
misdispendingc1390
misspendingc1390
fool-largessec1405
wantonness1448
fool-largec1450
dilapidationc1460
lavish1483
consuminga1538
profusion1545
sumptuosity1550
wastefulness1551
lashing1556
lavishing1574
profuseness1584
lavishness1590
misspense1591
wastening1604
outlashing1611
duck and drake1614
largesse1614
lavishment1630
squandering1632
prodigence1634
dissipation1639
wastry1645
profusiveness1655
high living1656
nepotation1656
extravagancy1666
extravagance1727
profligacy1792
squander1806
profligateness1817
wastrife1818
spendthriftism1862
wasterfulness1884
high-rolling1890
prodigalism1896
spendthriftiness1950
squanderbugging1966
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > waste > that which is wasted
wastinga1300
throwaway1870
a1300 Cursor Mundi 23850 Ai to spell and noght to spede, wasting it es o godds sede.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 25 He bad wastoure go worche what he best couthe, And wynnen his wastyng with somme manere crafte.
1523 in D. Forbes & C. Innes Acct. Familie Innes (1864) 97 His friends tak him and put him in fermance for eschewin of ony forther waisting of his saidis landis and gudis.
1867 E. B. Pusey Eleven Addr. (1908) iii. 24 He foresaw Adam's wasting of His grace.
3. Gradual diminution or decrease; gradual wear or loss.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > loss of material
wastinga1425
waste1497
consumptiona1513
deperdition1607
absumption1617
wastage1756
deperition1793
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > gradual
wastinga1425
leakage1642
dwindle1779
dwindling1884
rundown1890
diminuendo1891
phase-down1958
wind-down1969
tail-off1975
build-down1983
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 73 Boile þam togidre to þe wastyng of þe iuysez.
1509 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 31 Item ressived ffor wastyng of torchis when that jenyns wyfe was beryed and at her monthe mynde, ijd.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island viii. xxvi. 113 His clothes all patcht with more then honest thrift, And clouted shoon were nail'd for fear of wasting.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 416 Two strong dams..to prevent the water from wasting.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 87 To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
1883 D. C. Murray Hearts xvii When he remembered how friendly everybody was in his new world, he forgot the rapid wasting of his little fortune.
4.
a. Gradual decay of life or organic tissue; gradual loss of strength and vitality; consumption, atrophy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health
failinga1382
sickeninga1382
wasting1398
downhielda1400
dissolutionc1400
debilitationa1492
defailing1502
effeeblishing1540
faintingc1540
effeeblishment1545
enervationa1575
feeblishing1574
declining1588
decay1609
flagging1611
labefaction1620
feebling1624
sinking1625
deading1645
dejection1652
fail1654
emperiment1674
decline1770
sapping1825
breakdown1858
attenuation1868
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun]
wasting1398
pininga1450
consumation1551
waste1570
marasmus1574
colliquation1601
marasme1612
decrement1646
wearing1654
unnourishment1662
decline1783
undermining1897
abiotrophy1902
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. lvii. 174 The bones somtyme ben greuyd of wastynge of humours of the marow.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Tabo, a consumption, wastynge, or putrifaction of thinges.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 81v So that if he shaketh him not off betimes by suche wasting of bloud as he will make, thereby he is quickly enfeebled.
1628 A. Leighton Appeal to Parl. 143 The groning of the brute and sencelesse creatures amongst us, under murreings and wastings.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 256 Though hunger still remain: so it remain Without this bodies wasting, I content me. View more context for this quotation
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Wasting, a consumption, a decline.
1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Analosis..a consumption, wasting, or atrophy.
1893 Daily News 9 Jan. 3/4 A baby who is rapidly recovering from ‘wasting’, a very general malady among the little ones of the poor.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 229 Wasting of the levator palati and of the vocal cord muscles cannot actually be seen.
b. Sport. Reduction of weight by ‘training down’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > acquiring by training
wasting1856
1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock xii. 207 With medicine and vigorous wasting, they can come to their weight again..in three weeks.
1913 R. H. Gretton Mod. Hist. Eng. People I. viii. 191 His suicide was attributed to depression of spirits caused by the incessant ‘wasting’ to keep down his weight.
5. Mining. (See quots.)
ΚΠ
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 39 The first operation to which the iron ore is subjected, is wasting; that is exposing the stones to a moderate heat, which volatilises any extraneous mixture of the ores.
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 70 Wastings, workings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wastingadj.

Etymology: < waste v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwasting.
1.
a. That lays waste, devastates, or destroys.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devastating
wastingc1230
wastefula1400
spoiling1565
desolative1593
desolatory1606
depopulating1627
devastating1634
ravaginga1649
devasting1659
vastative1667
devastative1805
depopulative1861
depopulatory1864
earth-shattering1864
c1230 Hali Meid. 43 And te oðre..liueð i godes luue, wiðuten euch heate of þe hali gast, þat bearneð se lihte, wiðute wastinde brune in alle hise icorene.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. viii. B The waistinge abhominacion.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. vii. 46 And see the Cities and the Townes defac't, By wasting Ruine of the cruell Foe. View more context for this quotation
a1646 J. Burroughes Expos. Hosea (1652) iii. 190 Sin is of a wasting nature: Sin layeth wast Countreyes and places that people live in.
1707 N. Rowe Poem Late Successes Her Majesty's Arms 14 The dreadful Ravage of the wasting War.
1744 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) i. 58 Whate'er is human ebbs and flows As wasting Time prevails.
1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. x. 88 The wasting sea-breeze keen Had worn the pillar's carving quaint.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. i. 61 Here thy temple was, And is, despite of war and wasting fire.
1889 J. B. Bury Hist. Later Rom. Emp. I. ii. i. 66 Stilicho..departed to Salona, allowing Alaric to proceed on his wasting way into the lands of Hellas.
b. That undermines strength and vitality. Of a disease: Causing atrophy or gradual decay.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > causing
wastinga1600
wastefula1616
syntectic1651
colliquative1666
consuming1699
forpining1818
a1600 J. Davies Epigr. xxxvi. 21 The wasting Hectique, and the Quartain Feuer.
a1721 M. Prior 24 Songs iii. 4 A lingering fever's wasting pain.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 281 A haggard paleness, which seemed the effect of care or of dissipation, or of both these wasting causes combined.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 94 A slow, wasting consumption, prevented the eldest girl from continuing her exertions.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xxi. 310 The state of his own health, too infirm to encounter, with safety, the wasting heats of an African summer.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 564 Wasting diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and phthisis.
2.
a. That is being gradually consumed or destroyed; decaying, waning, passing away.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > wasting
wasting1340
wastening1647
1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 980 In þis wastinge word we ne wone nouht euere.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 8 These Eyes, like Lampes, whose wasting Oyle is spent, Waxe dimme. View more context for this quotation
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia Pref. sig. E2 The other Mandril..has an even neck instead of a taper one, and runs in a Collar, that by the help of a Screw, and a joynt made like M in the Figure, it can be still adjustned to the wearing or wasting neck.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 234 And now the latter Watch of wasting Night, And setting Stars to kindly Rest invite.
1744 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs ii. 128 Our wasting Lives grow shorter still As Months and Days increase.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 272 The wasting cliff at Pakefield.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 889 For the wasting muscles massage and electrical treatment should be employed.
b. Sport. (See waste v. 11c.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin > making > by training
wasting1880
1880 W. Day Racehorse in Training xvii. 166 It was once no uncommon sight at Newmarket to see, daily, ten or a dozen wasting jockeys returning from an eight-mile walk, thoroughly exhausted.
c. wasting asset n. see quot. 1974.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit > sum placed to one's credit > assets
discoveries1648
assets1721
resources1825
net asset1863
wasting asset1930
1930 Economist 26 Apr. 951/2 Dividends to shareholders—representing return of capital, since gold mines are a wasting asset—have shown much less than a corresponding rate of increase.
1953 Times 31 Oct. 2/7 The cost will be almost competitive with coal-based electrical power, and it would be contrary to all experience if the cost comparison did not turn steadily in nuclear energy's favour, particularly when coal is a wasting asset and steadily more costly in real terms to extract.
1970 Guardian 3 Nov. Dr. Beeching breathed his kiss of death on the Inverness to Kyle [railway line] in 1963; since then it has been regarded as a wasting asset.
1974 Terminol. Managem. & Financial Accountancy (Inst. Cost & Managem. Accountants) 65 Wasting assets, assets of a fixed nature which are gradually consumed or exhausted in the process of earning income (e.g. mines or quarries).

Derivatives

ˈwastingly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adverb]
wastefully1513
riotously?1529
prodigally1530
excessively1552
wastingly1552
lavishly1571
lashingly1573
profusedly1584
lavishingly1585
overlavishly1593
profusely1595
profligately1676
dispendiously1874
wasterfully1891
extravagantly1894
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adverb] > wastefully
wastefully1513
wastingly1552
profligately1676
uneconomically1881
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adverb]
piningly1561
tabidlya1682
consumptively1697
tubercularly1834
wastingly1834
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wastinglye, or wastfullye, prodige.
a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2219 in Wks. (1640) III Not to cause the trouble of making Breviates, by writing too riotous, and wastingly.
1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde i. iii. v. 164 No poison works so wastingly amongst them As a low diet..yea, it brings them down.
a1853 R. Wardlaw Lect. James (1869) 241 Thus consuming, and wastingly, and wantonly, and wickedly, abusing the divine bounty.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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