wasten

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make or become waste (i.e. barren, dejected, dismal, feeble, or sickly) or wasted ambitransitive
    — It is our wisdom to master this wastening incredulity: to overcome unbelief, by faith; and so the more easily this present world; making light of its permitted trials, and sitting loose to its possessions.

词形变化

wastens present,singular,third-person wastening participle,present wastened participle,past wastened past

词源

From waste (“empty, barren, dejected, dismal”, adjective) + -en.
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