Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any medical condition that causes pronounced loss of body mass.

    He suffered from a horrible wasting disease and lost 100 pounds in only two weeks.

More definitions
  • involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Translations

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Forms

plural: wasting diseases
Singularwasting disease
Pluralwasting diseases

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Synonyms

4 synonyms
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Word family

2 related words

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