Definition of waste

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Waste (v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc..

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Recruit :: Recruit (n.) A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement.
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..
Fud :: Fud (n.) Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy..
Draughthouse :: Draughthouse (n.) A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.
Tabefy :: Tabefy (v. t.) To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate..
Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
Dawdler :: Dawdler (n.) One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
Spendthrift :: Spendthrift (a.) Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..
Waste :: Waste (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less..
Estrepement :: Estrepement (n.) A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses..
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..
Slatter :: Slatter (v. i.) To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful..
Dally :: Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle..
Dwindle :: Dwindle (v. i.) To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.
Forwaste :: Forwaste (v. t.) To desolate or lay waste utterly.
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy..
Blotter :: Blotter (n.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place..
Embezzle :: Embezzle (v. t.) To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
Prodigality :: Prodigality (n.) Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony..
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