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Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate..

Pine :: Pine (v. i.) To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; -- usually followed by for.

Palter :: Palter (v. t.) To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things.

Atrophy :: Atrophy (v. t.) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal..

Moulder :: Moulder (v. i.) To crumble into small particles; to turn to dust by natural decay; to lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble away..

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

Muddle :: Muddle (v. t.) To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated..

Devastate :: Devastate (v. t.) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

Wild :: Wild (n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa..

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

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..

Perish :: Perish (v. i.) To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away..

Scath :: Scath (v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.

Depredate :: Depredate (v. t.) To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.

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.

Lock-weir :: Lock-weir (n.) A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber..

Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation..

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..

Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent..

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