Definition of waste

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Waste (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder..

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Laze :: Laze (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days..
Recruit :: Recruit (n.) A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement.
Elimination :: Elimination (n.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
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..
Ravage :: Ravage (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Spend :: Spend (v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it..
Wastel :: Wastel (n.) A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake..
Decrement :: Decrement (n.) The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.
Wash :: Wash (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment..
Stowre :: Stowing (n.) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
Canker :: Canker (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral..
Gobbing :: Gobbing (n.) The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.
Consume :: Consume (v. i.) To waste away slowly.
Devastation :: Devastation (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
Candlewaster :: Candlewaster (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Waste :: 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..
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..
Recruit :: Recruit (v. t.) To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits..
Spendthrift :: Spendthrift (n.) One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
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