Definition of waste

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Waste (v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness..

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Moulder :: Moulder (v. t.) To turn to dust; to cause to crumble; to cause to waste away.
Forwaste :: Forwaste (v. t.) To desolate or lay waste utterly.
Dissipate :: Dissipate (v. i.) To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates..
Bezzle :: Bezzle (v. t.) To plunder; to waste in riot.
Swale :: Swale (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v..
Truant :: Truant (v. t.) To idle away; to waste.
Dross :: Dross (n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
Prodigality :: Prodigality (n.) Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony..
Wasteful :: Wasteful (a.) Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition..
Wastebook :: Wastebook (n.) A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal..
Waster :: Waster (v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal..
Losel :: Losel (a.) Wasteful; slothful.
Decrement :: Decrement (n.) The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
Leakage :: Leakage (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking..
Candlewaster :: Candlewaster (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Corrupt :: Corrupt (v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless..
Preyer :: Preyer (n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer..
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..
Spoilsmen :: Spoilful (a.) Wasteful; rapacious.
Sweal :: Sweal (v. i.) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame..
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