Reverse Dictionary: WASTE AWAY

ADJECTIVES
1890 — TABESCENT wasting away
1996 — FALLEN AWAY wasted away, usually from illness → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1996 — POORED AWAY grown thin, wasted away → Amer. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
1646 — DECREMENT bodily decay; wasting away → obs.
1651 — ABSUMPTION the process of wasting away, gradual destruction → obs.
1658 — TABEFACTION the wasting away or consumption of the body; emaciation
1841 — SNATTER anything wasting away gradually → Eng. dial. obs.

VERBS
..888 — WALLOW to wither, to fade; to waste away → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1000 — DWINE to waste or pine away; to decline in vigour; to languish, to fade, to wither → arch.
1000 — SWIND to waste away, to languish; to dwindle away, to decrease, to die; also, to vanish, to disappear → obs.
1475 — PALL to decay, to waste away, to rot → obs.
.M16 — PULE to pine or waste away; to have no appetite → Sc. & literary usage
1567 — WANZE to wither, to fade, to waste away; to become emaciated → obs.
1596 — ABSUME to consume gradually; to waste away; to carry off → obs.
1604 — RUST to cause to degenerate through inactivity or lack of use; to allow to decay; to waste away in idleness
1646 — DECREMENT bodily decay; wasting away → obs.
1651 — ABSUMPTION the process of wasting away, gradual destruction → obs.
1656 — TABEFY to waste away; to emaciate → obs. (Bk.)
1658 — TABEFACTION the wasting away or consumption of the body; emaciation
1673 — SMARTLE to waste away → Eng. dial. obs.
1841 — SNATTER anything wasting away gradually → Eng. dial. obs.
1875 — TAPISH → TAPPISH to waste or pine away; to begin to be mortally ill → Eng. dial.
1881 — CANGE to waste away or moulder by degrees; said of persons and things → Eng. dial.
1893 — PINDLE to waste away, to dwindle, to languish → Amer. dial.
1905 — MAR to waste away; to melt → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — MEISLEN to consume or waste away by slow degrees → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — MELT to waste away → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1940 — PERISH TO DEATH to die a slow death; to waste away → Amer. dial.