- Eating - Use (of a resource) - Wasting (disease) - The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.;
decay; destruction. - The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or
diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay. - A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that
form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with
cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; --
called also pulmonary consumption.
- Degenerate - Go down - Refuse an invitation - Refuse to accept - Turn down - worsen decay - To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward
direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
despondency, etc.; to condescend.
- Chronic infectious disease - Communicable disease - Hansen’s disease - A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as
reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These
are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent
nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the
disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition
there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails,
and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and
joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.