Word.ws English Dictionary

wasted away

wasted away is the simple past and past participle of waste away.

Meaning of 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.
    Synonyms:
    wither

Questions about wasted away

What is wasted away the simple past and past participle of?
Wasted away is the simple past and past participle of waste away.

Words near wasted away in the dictionary

  1. wastecan
  2. wastecans
  3. wastecoat
  4. wastecoats
  5. wasted
  6. wasted away
  7. wasted breath
  8. wasted time
  9. wasteful
  10. wastefully
  11. wastefulness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wasted away (page history and authors); waste away (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wasted away.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wasted_away. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.