wasting away

“This is like a third of their nutrition for a day. If they don’t get this, they’re basically wasting away,” said the 38-year-old, who just graduated from USC’s graduate nutrition program.

Eventually his muscles started wasting away and he can now only walk for short intervals.

The faces of that other world are with him: Jenna, the traumatised little girl wasting away, spectral pale on a hospital bed, while her mother shows Sam a phone video of the child's last birthday.

The accumulation of fat in liver cells leads to organ damage and atrophy or wasting away.

Key West earned the nickname “Margaritaville” after his song about wasting away by the sea looking for a lost shaker of salt.