wasting disease wasting away • wastingly · · · Info · Definitions · Synonyms · Characters · · wasting disease · · Text Common · · Latin · · Scripts 15 · · Length 4 · · Syllables Definitions · · · (noun) involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body. Synonyms: pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague. · · Noun Definition 1 Synonyms · · · pulmonary tuberculosis · · Synonym 1 consumption · · Synonym 2 phthisis · · Synonym 3 white plague · · Synonym 4 Characters · · space U+0020 a latin small letter a U+0061 d latin small letter d U+0064 e latin small letter e U+0065 g latin small letter g U+0067 i latin small letter i U+0069 n latin small letter n U+006E s latin small letter s U+0073 t latin small letter t U+0074 w latin small letter w U+0077