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verb

Waste v. t. (past & past part. wasted; pres. part. wasting)

1.

To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. "Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted, Art made a mirror to behold my plight." "The Tiber Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds."

2.

To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. "Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness." "O, were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!" "Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and pain." "Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him."

3.

To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury. "The younger son gathered all together, and... wasted his substance with riotous living." "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air."

4.

(Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

Synonyms: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.

Waste v. i.

1.

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less; commonly used with away. "The time wasteth night and day." "The barrel of meal shall not waste." "But man dieth, and wasteth away."

2.

(Sporting) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

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Etymology of 'Wasted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wasted" Quotes from Famous Books

... its construction, I may state, that it is brought across a small stream, through bamboo troughs, so loosely attached that sufficient water is wasted in its passage to turn a small mill ...

— Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas • W. Hastings Macaulay

... time, it occurred to the Aigle to play a trick upon us. Just as the luggage was piled in, after numerous little delays, she cast a shoe; in other words, burst a tyre, apparently without any reason except a mischievous desire to be aggravating. Another half hour wasted! And fat, silvery clouds were poking up their great white heads over the horizon in the north, where, perhaps, they were ...

— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson

... they send their only remaining ship to New Spain, to entreat aid in their distress and imminent danger, for the Portuguese threaten to drive the Spaniards out of the Philippines. All the expense hitherto incurred will be wasted unless a permanent and suitably-equipped settlement be made at some good port. If supplies cannot be sent, Legazpi asks for ships with which to transport the Spaniards home, and wishes to resign his office as governor. With this letter he sends an account of the islands, "and of the ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 - Volume III, 1569-1576 • E.H. Blair

... its acknowledged need of rigid regulation and bureaucracy. We see all around us the flabby routine work, stale and uninspiring, wherever sharp rivalry has no chance. It is the great opportunity for mediocrity, while the unusual talent is made ineffective and wasted. Our present civilization shows that in every country really decisive achievement is found only in those fields which draw the strongest minds, and that they are drawn only where the greatest premiums ...

— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg

... and he must do it quickly. Anxiously he looked this way and that way, but there was no one in sight. Then he remembered that Unc' Billy Possum's hollow tree was not far away. Perhaps Unc' Billy could help. He hoped that Unc' Billy was at home, and he wasted no time in finding out. Unc' Billy was at home, and when he heard that his old friend Prickly Porky was in trouble, he hurried up the hill as fast as ever he could. He saw right away ...

— The Adventures of Prickly Porky • Thornton W. Burgess

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