All wasting synonyms
wast·ing
W w adjective wasting
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- deteriorating — Become progressively worse.
- progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
noun wasting
- putridity — in a state of foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter; rotten.
- caries — Caries is decay in teeth.
- depredation — The depredations of a person, animal, or force are their harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something.
- bony — Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones.
- marasmus — malnutrition occurring in infants and young children, caused by insufficient intake of calories or protein and characterized by thinness, dry skin, poor muscle development, and irritability.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- murder — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
- gangrene — necrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
- spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
- rottenness — decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
- decay — When something such as a dead body, a dead plant, or a tooth decays, it is gradually destroyed by a natural process.
- spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
- undernourished — not nourished with sufficient or proper food to maintain or promote health or normal growth.
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- anorexia — Anorexia or anorexia nervosa is an illness in which a person has an overwhelming fear of becoming fat, and so refuses to eat enough and becomes thinner and thinner.
- blood bath — a killing of many people; massacre
- haggardness — having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
- skinnier — very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten.
- offing — the state or fact of being off.
- carnage — Carnage is the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war.
- emaciation — The state of being abnormally thin or weak.
- tabes — a gradually progressive emaciation.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.