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Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually..

Waste :: 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..

Lie :: Lie (adj.) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall..

Blotter :: Blotter (n.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place..

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..

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline..

Wearer :: Wearer (n.) That which wastes or diminishes.

Dissipate :: Dissipate (v. t.) To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.

Desolate :: Desolate (a.) Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars..

Rubbish :: Rubbish (n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris..

Idle :: Idle (v. t.) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day..

Spendthrift :: Spendthrift (n.) One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.

Withered :: Withered (a.) Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.

Scurvy :: Scurvy (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It

Absumption :: Absumption (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

Wasteweir :: Wasteweir (n.) An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like..

Divast :: Divast (a.) Devastated; laid waste.

Estrepement :: Estrepement (n.) A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses..

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption..

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