| 单词 | wasting |
| 释义 | wasting (once / 893 pages) n WORD FAMILY wasting: wastings+/wastage: wastages/waste: wastage, wasted, wasteful, waster, wastes, wasting/wasteful: wastefully, wastefulness/waster: wasters USAGE EXAMPLESWasting no time, House and Senate Republicans are poised to mark the first day of the 115th Congress with resolutions condemning the U.N. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) His weight before the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October dropped to 105 pounds, and he wonders whether he is experiencing some muscle wasting. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Young said jury duty is an important obligation for U.S. citizens and that the court shouldn’t burden them by wasting their time. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) 1n any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease Syn|Hyper cachexia, cachexy debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) 2n a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse Syn|Hypo|Hyper atrophy, wasting away amyotrophia, amyotrophy progressive wasting of muscle tissues tabeswasting of the body during a chronic disease kraurosisatrophy and shriveling of the skin or mucous membrane kraurosis vulvaekraurosis of the vulva; often a precancerous lesion symptom (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
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