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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Prodigality :: Prodigality (n.) Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony..
Wanton :: Wanton (v. t.) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness..
Spill :: Spill (v. t.) To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste..
Recruit :: Recruit (n.) A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement.
Economizer :: Economizer (n.) Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.
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..
Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
Cesspipe :: Cesspipe (n.) A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool..
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..
Laze :: Laze (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days..
Waste :: 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.
Economist :: Economist (n.) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste..
Dawdle :: Dawdle (v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning..
Bate :: Bate (v. i.) To waste away.
Quiddler :: Quiddler (n.) One who wastes his energy about trifles.
Nourish :: Nourish (v. t.) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment..
Waster :: Waster (v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal..
Pine :: Pine (v. i.) To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; -- usually followed by for.
Inexhaustible :: Inexhaustible (a.) Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words..
Moth :: Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing..
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