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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Bangle :: Bangle (v. t.) To waste by little and little; to fritter away.
Lose :: Lose (v. t.) Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction..
Infrugal :: Infrugal (a.) Not frugal; wasteful; as, an infrugal expense of time..
Fud :: Fud (n.) Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy..
Emaciate :: Emaciate (v. t.) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him..
Cappadine :: Cappadine (n.) A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag..
Leakage :: Leakage (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking..
Tabefy :: Tabefy (v. t.) To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate..
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..
Overburden :: Overburden (n.) The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.
Desert :: Desert (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island..
Repair :: Repair (n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city..
Desolation :: Desolation (n.) The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
Muddle :: Muddle (v. t.) To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated..
Dilapidate :: Dilapidate (v. t.) To impair by waste and abuse; to squander.
Miltwaste :: Miltwaste () A small European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine.
Uropoetic :: Uropoetic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a system of organs which eliminate nitrogenous waste matter from the blood of certain invertebrates..
Moth :: Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing..
Ravage :: Ravage (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time..
Approve :: Approve (v. t.) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
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