Definition of waste

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Waste (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc..

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Dissipation :: Dissipation (n.) The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
Knubs :: Knubs (n. pl.) Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon.
Stowre :: Stowing (n.) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly..
Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
Prodigal :: Prodigal (n.) One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift..
Vast :: Vast (superl.) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
Dawdler :: Dawdler (n.) One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
Economizer :: Economizer (n.) Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.
Hectic :: Hectic (a.) Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush..
Scath :: Scath (v.) Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune.
Estrepe :: Estrepe (v. t.) To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste..
Squander :: Squander (v. i.) To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
Wilderness :: Wilderness (v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind..
Spend :: Spend (v. i.) To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely..
Drill :: Drill (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
Fool-largesse :: Fool-largesse (n.) Foolish expenditure; waste.
Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction..
Truant :: Truant (v. t.) To idle away; to waste.
Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
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