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Перевод: wasting

[прилагательное]
опустошительный; разорительный; изнурительный;
[существительное]
упадок сил; исхудание; атрофия

Тезаурус:

1. Grant had watched them standing in front of the electronic display, puzzling at the excessive time they seemed to be wasting.
2. Government by minority is usually bad government; in no truly democratic country could a disaster like the poll tax have been pushed through in defiance of public opinion, wasting billions of pounds and causing misery to millions of people.
3. Forty minutes later Fred Winter was again being led in on the winner, for his wasting to ride Beaver II had paid off.
4. The broadcaster who gave a complicated radio talk on a technical subject was wasting his time, for no one listened to him - a point which came over in interviews so often that it became indisputable.
5. One girl spent the whole afternoon talking to me about her family's obsession with beauty, how she had always been praised and noticed for being pretty and not much else, and then, just at the end, spoke guiltily of "wasting my time" with a subject so unimportant.
6. If, therefore, the King had turned to Henderson after MacDonald had proffered his resignation, or had sought the views of Labour Privy Counsellors as suggested by Herbert Morrison, he could have been accused of wasting valuable time.
7. "All you're doing is wasting petrol," he said.
8. However, I was wasting my time - my gaze slid across the surface of the pages like marbles on a shiny table-top.
9. How he'd changed and refused to go on and now was wasting his talent.
10. Students came to be regarded as trouble-making drones, supported by the tax-payers' money, indulging themselves at others' expense, and frivolously wasting their own and other people's time.
11. Learn the easiest and most efficient ways of handling the patient, so that you can help him move about without hurting yourself or wasting energy.
12. Stop her from wasting herself if you can.
13. It guards its independence and tries to avoid wasting time with ICI's corporate matters.