Another word for waste
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Verb
To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly
See also:To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work
See also:To lose strength or power.
Idioms:To fail to take advantage of
See also:To destroy completely as or as if by conquering
To cause the death of
Idioms:See also:
Noun
Excessive or imprudent expenditure
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Another word for waste
Modifier
Noun
The state of being wasted
Verb
To use without result
Antonyms:To squander
Antonyms:To be consumed gradually
Synonym Study
- Wilderness refers to an uninhabited waste where a lack of paths or trails makes it difficult to find one's way, esp. to such a region thickly covered with trees and underbrush
- Badlands is applied to a barren, hilly waste where rapid erosion has cut the soft rocks into fantastic shapes
- A desert is a barren, arid, usually sandy tract of land
- Waste , in this connection, is the general word for any stretch of uncultivable, hence uninhabitable, land
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