Definition of waste

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Waste (a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

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Save-all :: Save-all (n.) Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss..
Scattergood :: Scattergood (n.) One who wastes; a spendthrift.
Candlewaster :: Candlewaster (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Devastation :: Devastation (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
Blotter :: Blotter (n.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place..
Waste :: Waste (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay..
Sweal :: Sweal (v. i.) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame..
Prodigal :: Prodigal (n.) One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift..
Wash :: Wash (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc..
Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices..
Overburden :: Overburden (n.) The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.
Decrement :: Decrement (n.) The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
Scath :: Scath (v.) Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune.
Hate :: Hate (n.) To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted..
Vinasse :: Vinasse (n.) The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, -- used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate..
Frugal :: Frugal (n.) Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time..
Kidney :: Kidney (n.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.
Nourish :: Nourish (v. t.) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment..
Wasteful :: Wasteful (a.) Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition..
Harry :: Harry (v. t.) To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land..
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