Word.ws English Dictionary

wasting away

wasting away is the present participle and gerund 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 wasting away

What is wasting away the present participle and gerund of?
Wasting away is the present participle and gerund of waste away.

Words near wasting away in the dictionary

  1. wastfull
  2. wastier
  3. wastiest
  4. wastin'
  5. wasting
  6. wasting away
  7. wasting breath
  8. wasting disease
  9. wasting diseases
  10. wasting investment
  11. wasting investments

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wasting 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: “wasting away.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wasting_away. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.