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wasted away

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As his body slowly, torturously wasted away, Human Rights Watch, among others, pleaded for his release—to no avail.

The party has wasted away to the point where opportunistic eruptions like the birthers and much worse are natural sorrows.

Their lives had been wasted away because of their loyalty to Maya.

She wasted away in a slow, but hopeless decline; and at length sank into the grave, the victim of a broken heart.

Then she shrugged her shoulders and opened the door, turning to remark, "You don't seem to be wasted away, either of you!"

If a cow died, or a villager wasted away with an unknown complaint, Mary and her cat had it to answer for.

The king would never consent to his going, so the prince wasted away slowly without speaking about his grief.

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On this page you'll find 600 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to waste away, such as: atrophy, corrode, decompose, degenerate, discolor, and disintegrate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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