Definition of waste

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Waste (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder..

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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..
Spiller :: Spill (v. i.) To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted..
Dawdle :: Dawdle (v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning..
Depredate :: Depredate (v. t.) To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.
Vast :: Vast (superl.) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
Consume :: Consume (v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour..
Spoilsmen :: Spoilful (a.) Wasteful; rapacious.
Quiddler :: Quiddler (n.) One who wastes his energy about trifles.
Wasteful :: Wasteful (a.) Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
Wilderness :: Wilderness (v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind..
Moth :: Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing..
Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance..
Desolation :: Desolation (n.) A place or country wasted and forsaken.
Uropoetic :: Uropoetic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a system of organs which eliminate nitrogenous waste matter from the blood of certain invertebrates..
Estrepement :: Estrepement (n.) A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses..
Ablation :: Ablation (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste.
Infrugal :: Infrugal (a.) Not frugal; wasteful; as, an infrugal expense of time..
Pine :: Pine (v. i.) To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; -- usually followed by for.
Dross :: Dross (n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
Moor :: Moor (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath..
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