Meaning

• To devastate, destroy

• To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.

  "We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project."

• To kill; to murder.

• To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

• Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.

• To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.

• To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

Meaning

• Gradual deterioration or wasting away.

  "muscular wastings"

• The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.

Meaning

• Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.