waste away

phrasal verb

wasted away; wasting away; wastes away

: to become thinner and weaker because of illness or lack of food

Examples of waste away in a Sentence

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The lack of aid has left children like 11-year-old Nour al-Huda Mohammad marooned, wasting away in a hospital bed without enough food or medicine. —Lauren Weber, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024

Quotable Poop problem: Climbers on Mount Everest will now have to bring poop bags and carry their waste away with them from the world’s highest peak in a bid to tackle pollution. —Daniel Wine, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024

Kansas City’s going to be wasting away in Margaritaville and enjoying the Barbie world in the near future. —Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024

The agency has used a flexible approach in recent years to approve drugs for particularly devastating conditions such as ALS, Alzheimer’s and Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal disease that causes the muscles of young boys to waste away. —Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024

The Huskies led by 25 points early in the second half, only to let the advantage waste away as ASU pulled even on Frankie Collins’ layup with seven seconds left. —Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024

Read Next National Mother let 16-month-old ‘waste away’ and die, AZ officials say. —Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024

Sean was a 44-year old former salesman, church volunteer and father of two whose severe neurological disorder left him wasting away, unable to speak or care for himself. —Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024

Laila believes her acting talents are being wasted away in this arid simulation, where female role-players are limited to mute, background roles. —K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024