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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Save :: Save (v. i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
Slattern :: Slattern (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.
Sweal :: Sweal (v. i.) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame..
Haggard :: Haggard (a.) Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes..
Wasteweir :: Wasteweir (n.) An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like..
Squander :: Squander (v. i.) To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
Unspilt :: Unspilt (a.) Not spilt or wasted; not shed.
Spend :: Spend (v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it..
Prodigence :: Prodigence (n.) Waste; profusion; prodigality.
Devastation :: Devastation (n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste..
Withered :: Withered (a.) Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.
Wastebook :: Wastebook (n.) A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal..
Shack :: Shack (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn..
Estrepement :: Estrepement (n.) A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses..
Economical :: Economical (a.) Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of time..
Dissipation :: Dissipation (n.) The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
Waste :: Waste (a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
Bate :: Bate (v. i.) To waste away.
Elimination :: Elimination (n.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
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