waste away
phrasal verb
wasted away; wasting away; wastes away
: to become thinner and weaker because of illness or lack of food
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Funding cliff The children wasting away, day by day, don’t have time to wait for funding gaps to be filled.
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Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Astronauts traveling to Mars will have to survive for months on a tiny spaceship with minimal food, endure microgravity where their bones and muscles waste away, and suffer from cosmic radiation bombardment.
—Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
For more than 21 hours each day, their bodies are still weightless, continuing to waste away.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
But the question reverberates for a man who’s spent years wasting away, always watching his back, never looking forward.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
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Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Astronauts traveling to Mars will have to survive for months on a tiny spaceship with minimal food, endure microgravity where their bones and muscles waste away, and suffer from cosmic radiation bombardment.
—Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
For more than 21 hours each day, their bodies are still weightless, continuing to waste away.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
But the question reverberates for a man who’s spent years wasting away, always watching his back, never looking forward.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for waste away
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“Waste away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waste%20away. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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