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wastesnounpl. of waste an instance of spending money or resources without care or restraintit seems like a waste to spend my entire paycheck on a bigger TV extravagances, prodigalities indulgences, luxuries, splurgeslosses, wastagesdissipations, profligacies, profusionsoverindulgences, self-indulgencesexcesses, immoderacies, overkills necessitiesbelt-tightenings, conservations, economies, frugalities, parsimonies, penny-pinchings, savings, thriftsausterities, moderations, restraints, temperances land that is uninhabited or not fit for cropsan area that was a barren waste after the strip-mining had ended barrens, deserts, desolations, heaths, no-man's-lands, wastelands badlandsbrushes, bushesdust bowlsoutdoorsnatures, wildernesses, wilds a wide space or areaa legendary mariner doomed to sail the watery wastes of the world until Judgment Day breadths, distances, expanses, expansions, extents, fields, lengths, plains, reaches, sheets, spreads, stretches domains, spheres, territoriescompasses, ranges, scopes, sweepsgamuts, scales, spectra(or spectrums)depths, voidsextensions, latitudes, spansamplitudes, immensities, magnitudes a gradual weakening, loss, or destructionthe slow waste of the once broad beach by the relentless tide wastesverbpresent tense third-person singular of wasteto use up carelesslyhe wasted his lottery winnings on booze-soaked nights with gold diggers blows, dissipates, fiddles away, fritters (away), lavishes, loses, misspends, runs through, spends, squanders, throws away, trifles (away) splurgesconsumes, depletes, exhausts, impoverishes, overspends, shootsindulges, overindulgesdisburses, expends, lays out plays ducks and drakes with(or makes ducks and drakes of) conserves economizes, scrimps, skimpspreserves, protects, saveshoards, lays up to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofone country attempting to waste another annihilates, creams, decimates, demolishes, desolates, destroys, devastates, does in, extinguishes, nukes, pulls down, pulverizes, razes, rubs out, ruins, shatters, smashes, tears down, totals, vaporizes, wracks, wrecks beats, bests, clobbers, conquers, crushes, defeats, drubs, licks, masters, overbears, overcomes, overmatches, prevails (over), routs, scotches, skunks, subdues, surmounts, thrashes, trims, triumphs (over), trounces, wallops, whips, wins (against)blasts, blows up, breaks, cripples, damages, defaces, deteriorates, disfigures, disintegrates, dissolves, dynamites, harms, impairs, injures, mangles, mars, mutilates, spoils, vitiateserodes, scours, sweeps (away), washes out, wears (away)dilapidates, disassembles, dismantles, guts, takes down, unbuilds, undoes, unmakesblots out, effaces, eradicates, expunges, exterminates, extirpates, liquidates, obliterates, removes, roots (out), snuffs (out), stamps (out), wipes outdespoils, havocs, loots, pillages, plunders, ravages, sacks, tramples, trashes, vandalizesassassinates, butchers, cuts down, dispatches, executes, fells, kills, kills off, massacres, mows (down), murders, slaughters, slays, takes out, zaps builds, constructs, erects, puts up, raises, rears, sets up doctors, fixes, mends, patches, reconditions, repairs, revampscreates, inventsassembles, fabricates, fashions, forges, forms, frames, makes, manufactures, molds, produces, shapesbrings about, constitutes, establishes, fathers, founds, institutes, organizesconserves, preserves, protects, savesrebuilds, reconstructs, remodels, renovates, restores to diminish the physical strength ofendless months of inactivity wasted him debilitates, devitalizes, enervates, enfeebles, etiolates, prostrates, saps, softens, tires, weakens cripples, disables, hamstrings, incapacitatesdepletes, depresses, exhausts, impoverishes, unmans, washes outdamages, harms, hurts, impairs, injures, invalids, lays upbreaks down, grinds (down), wears down, wears outparalyzes beefs (up), fortifies, strengthens energizes, invigorates, recruits, rejuvenates, vitalizeshardens, seasons, toughens |