Definition of waste

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Waste (a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

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Conservatory :: Conservatory (n.) A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants..
Prodigence :: Prodigence (n.) Waste; profusion; prodigality.
Estrepe :: Estrepe (v. t.) To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste..
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..
Dilapidation :: Dilapidation (n.) Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention..
Atrophy :: Atrophy (v. i.) To waste away; to dwindle.
Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit..
Candlewaster :: Candlewaster (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Absume :: Absume (v. t.) To consume gradually; to waste away.
Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay..
Rubbish :: Rubbish (n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris..
Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear..
Economical :: Economical (a.) Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.
Dissipation :: Dissipation (n.) The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
Weather :: Weather (v. i.) To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away, or alter, under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather..
Drill :: Drill (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
Dilly-dally :: Dilly-dally (v. i.) To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
Devastavit :: Devastavit (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.
Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste..
Waste :: Waste (a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless..
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