waste away

Verb

waste away (third-person singular simple present wastes away, present participle wasting away, simple past and past participle wasted away)

1. (idiomatic) To lose energy or become weak and feeble.
   • She watched him waste away from lack of food or exercise.
   • The perennial Arctic ice cap—the sea ice that persists through winter and summer—is wasting away. Over the past half century it has shrunk by more than a million square miles2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/why-we-wont-avoid-a-climate-catastrophe-feature/”, in National Geographic

   Synonyms:

   wither