Wasting Synonyms and Antonyms

wāstĭng
Spend extravagantly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. squandering
  2. blowing
  3. consuming
  4. dissipating
Antonyms:
  1. conserving
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To cause the death of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. zapping
  2. slaying
  3. killing
  4. finishing
  5. dispatching
  6. destroying
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To do away with completely and destructively
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swallowing
  2. eating
  3. devouring
  4. consuming
To fail to take advantage of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. missing
  2. losing
Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. languishing
  2. weakening
  3. waning
  4. sinking
  5. flagging
  6. failing
  7. fading
  8. deteriorating
  9. degenerating
To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wiling
  2. killing
  3. idling
  4. dawdling
A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cachexia
  2. atrophy
  3. wasting-away
  4. cachexy

Words Related to Wasting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Wasting Sentence Examples

  • Why are you wasting your time with me?

  • No point in wasting energy screaming now.

  • My chief says for us not to break our butts wasting any more time chasing him down.

  • The height and massiveness of the mountains decrease to the south-west, where the piedmont belt sweeps westward around them in western Georgia and eastern Alabama Some of the residual mountains hereabouts are reduced to a mere skeleton or framework by the retrogressive penetration of widening valleys between wasting spurs; the very type of vanishing forms, Certain districts within the mountains, apparently consisting of less resistant crystalline rocks, have been reduced to basin-like peneplains in the same time that served only to grade the slopes and subdue the summits of the neighboring mountains of more resistant rocks; the best example of this kind is the Asheville peneplain in North Carolina, measuring about 40 by 20 m.

  • You're wasting the best years of your life for them.

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