waste away

Examples of wasting

wasting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Wasting time scanning too much information in order to get a complex picture of various factors can be fatal in real life conditions.
Lower limbs are affected more than upper limbs, but foot and wrist drop, distal muscle weakness and wasting may be noted.
If the original copy has been discarded then another copy will have to be made, thus wasting resources.
Other features of motor neuron disease are generalized muscular weakness, wasting, fasciculation and brisk reflexes, though sensation is intact.
The article suggested the strategy of living with the vine louse rather than wasting huge amounts in attempts to eradicate it.
The wasting syndrome was reversed by placing the animals on a high protein diet.
These are oedema, growth failure, muscle wasting with retention of some subcutaneous fat and psychomotor change.
The small heart in kwashiorkor is due to muscle wasting.
This presents with wasting and pain in the proximal muscles of the leg, usually with return of function over 3-18 months.
We need to develop cooperative partnerships for guideline development to replace traditional competitive approaches that are wasting resources.
Skeletal muscle involvement includes ptosis, facial diplegia, weakness and wasting of sternomastoid, predominantly distal limb weakness, and myotonia.
She criticized women for wasting their minds on frivolous poetry that was pleasing to hear but devoid of any lasting value.
That would mean warming up, psyching up, and probably wasting a good reed.
If they do not have that, they are wasting their time.
Emphasis will be given to initiatives supporting the weakest groups by identifying real need, not by wasting resources on negligible benefits in all directions.
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