waste away

Despite enduring an incurable illness in which muscles waste away, making even eating and breathing an ordeal, Burrow banded with his close friend and former teammate Kevin Sinfield to raise millions for research on M.N.D. and to support people with it, including establishing a care center in Leeds, in northern England.

Those not eaten waste away: Tissues erode, spines drop off.

“The last of my kind began to waste away for want of it. There were so few of us, so few—and finally, there was only me.”

And in the labs, the bandapats waste away and die from sadness.

For one thing, if I ran the obstacle course every night, I’d probably waste away to nothing.