Fall
Fall noun - The act of going down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily.
Wasting away and fall are semantically related In some cases you can use "Wasting away" instead a noun "Fall".
Wasting away
Wasting away noun - A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Your Days Are Numbered: Carnegie spends the better part of the movie slowly wasting away from a gunshot wound taken from an earlier battle, though he lives just long enough to see his little "kingdom" fall apart.
Source: Film / The Book of Eli
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