wasting

Gradually deteriorating; declining.

Sapping the strength, energy, or substance of the body; emaciating.

Laying waste; devastating; despoiling.

Gradually reducing the bodily plumpness and strength; enfeebling; emaciating: as, a wasting disease.

In medicine, atrophy.

In stone-cutting, the process or operation of chipping off fragments from a block of stone with a pick or point, for the purpose of reducing the faces to an approximately plane surface. Stone so worked is said to be wasted off. Compare clowring.

Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing

progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.

Referring to something that cause a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass.

Present participle of waste.