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waste away

verb

Definitions

  1. To lose energy or become weak and feeble.

    • She watched him waste away from lack of food or exercise.
    • The perennial Arctic ice cap—the sea ice that persists through winter and summer—is wasting away. Over the past half century it has shrunk by more than a million square miles

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for waste away. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA