wastened

Verb

wasten (third-person singular simple present wastens, present participle wastening, simple past and past participle wastened)

1. (ambitransitive) To make or become waste (i.e. barren, dejected, dismal, feeble, or sickly) or wasted
   • It is our wisdom to master this wastening incredulity: to overcome unbelief, by faith; and so the more easily this present world; making light of its permitted trials, and sitting loose to its possessions.1865, John Stock (Vicar of Finchingfield, Essex.), An Exposition of the First Epistle General of St. John.

   Synonyms:

   weaken, wane