Definition of waste

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Waste (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay..

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Save-all :: Save-all (n.) Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss..
Infrugal :: Infrugal (a.) Not frugal; wasteful; as, an infrugal expense of time..
Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts..
Economizer :: Economizer (n.) Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.
Bate :: Bate (v. i.) To waste away.
Candlewaster :: Candlewaster (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Economy :: Economy (n.) Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony..
Waste :: Waste (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc..
Losel :: Losel (a.) Wasteful; slothful.
Oasis :: Oasis (n.) A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert..
Refuse :: Refuse (n.) That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Scath :: Scath (v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.
Scattergood :: Scattergood (n.) One who wastes; a spendthrift.
Wastrel :: Wastrel (n.) Any waste thing or substanc.
Wasted :: Wasted (imp. & p. p.) of Wast.
Swale :: Swale (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v..
Harry :: Harry (v. i.) To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.
Squander :: Squander (v. t.) To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate..
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..
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