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Absume :: Absume (v. t.) To consume gradually; to waste away.

Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent..

Waste :: Waste (a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless..

Waste :: Waste (a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

Canker :: Canker (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral..

Dawdle :: Dawdle (v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning..

Draffy :: Draffy (a.) Dreggy; waste; worthless.

Moth :: Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing..

Wasting :: Wasting (a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune..

Losel :: Losel (a.) Wasteful; slothful.

Prodigally :: Prodigally (adv.) In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated..

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.

Waster :: Waster (v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil..

Scattergood :: Scattergood (n.) One who wastes; a spendthrift.

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..

Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.

Slatter :: Slatter (v. i.) To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful..

Dilly-dally :: Dilly-dally (v. i.) To loiter or trifle; to waste time.

Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance..

Waster :: Waster (v. t.) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief..

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