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waste away

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waste something away
to use something up wastefully; to dissipate something. He wasted all his money away and had to live in poverty. They wasted away everything and regretted it later.
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waste away

to wither or dwindle away. Our money just seemed to waste away. As she grew older, she just sort of wasted away.
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waste away
1. to gradually become thin and weak He stopped eating and wasted away until he looked like a shadow.
2. to be damaged or rubbed away by weather Good soil can waste away quickly if it's not cared for properly.
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In dying, do they not rather waste away mournfully, rendering unto God, little by little, their existence, as these trees render up shadow after shadow, exhausting their substance unto dissolution?
The Island of The Fay by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Send some money straightway to these poor folk, lest the fat one waste away and grow as lean as the lean one, and the lean one waste away to nothing at all, ere they get to Lincoln Town; but send them only ten shillings apiece, lest they grow puffed up with pride, Any more than that that thou sendest, send to me.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle, Howard View in context
can it be, most serene Casildea de Vandalia, that thou wilt suffer this thy captive knight to waste away and perish in ceaseless wanderings and rude and arduous toils?
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
 
 
 
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