<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Gradually reducing the fullness and strength of the body:<ul><li>A wasting disease.</li><li>Laying waste; devastating; despoiling:</li><li>The ravages of a wasting war.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Geology:<ul><li>Mass wasting.</li></ul></li></ul>