Idiom: waste away
Meaning
Idiom: waste away
- to slowly become thin and weak
- to decline or deteriorate
Example sentences
- After my grandma died, my grandfather didn’t want to eat and began to waste away.
- After I got cancer, I started wasting away until I began drinking these high-calorie nutritious shakes.
- When my son started wasting away, we never suspected it was because of anorexia because we didn't think boys developed eating disorders.
- When I go mononucleosis, I first thought it was great to lose so much weight but when you waste away you lose a lot of muscle too and just feel terribly weak.
- My best friend wasted away when he got treated for colon cancer.
- Please go into a treatment program. You're going to waste away if you don't stop the drugs.
- The refugees were wasting away during their journey from Africa to Europe.
- My aunt went from obese to wasting away in just six months. I wish she could just be healthy.
Synonyms
- go hungry
- melt away
- break down
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