wasting
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
Types & categories
- frailty hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
Types & categories
- symptom hypernym
- amyotrophia hyponym
- tabes hyponym
- kraurosis hyponym
Related & opposite
- atrophy derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | emaciate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cachectic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | frailty |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | atrophy |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | symptom |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | amyotrophia |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | tabes |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | kraurosis |