waste away

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waste away

verbo intransitivo

1. consumirse

waste away

verb:intransitive:plus_adverb

[+person] consumirse; [+muscles] atrofiarse

you're not exactly wasting away no es que te hayas consumido precisamente

people dying of cancer grow thin and visibly waste away infants who do not receive love will waste away and die Aliosha, now almost fifty and wasted away by tuberculosis my leg muscles had wasted away from being so long in plaster wasting away from unrequited love

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