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wastingverbpresent participle of waste to use up carelesslyhe wasted his lottery winnings on booze-soaked nights with gold diggers blowing, dissipating, fiddling away, frittering (away), lavishing, losing, misspending, running through, spending, squandering, throwing away, trifling (away) splurgingconsuming, depleting, exhausting, impoverishing, overspending, shootingindulging, overindulgingdisbursing, expending, laying out playing ducks and drakes with(or making ducks and drakes of) conserving economizing, scrimping, skimpingpreserving, protecting, savinghoarding, laying up to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofone country attempting to waste another annihilating, creaming, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, extinguishing, nuking, pulling down, pulverizing, razing, rubbing out, ruining, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling(or totalling), vaporizing, wracking, wrecking beating, besting, clobbering, conquering, crushing, defeating, drubbing, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), routing, scotching, skunking, subduing, surmounting, thrashing, trimming, triumphing (over), trouncing, walloping, whipping, winning (against)blasting, blowing up, breaking, crippling, damaging, defacing, deteriorating, disfiguring, disintegrating, dissolving, dynamiting, harming, impairing, injuring, mangling, marring, mutilating, spoiling, vitiatingeroding, scouring, sweeping (away), washing out, wearing (away)dilapidating, disassembling, dismantling, gutting, taking down, unbuilding, undoing, unmakingblotting out, effacing, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, removing, rooting (out), snuffing (out), stamping (out), wiping outdespoiling, havocking, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sacking, trampling, trashing, vandalizingassassinating, butchering, cutting down, dispatching, executing, felling, killing, killing off, massacring, mowing (down), murdering, slaughtering, slaying, taking out, zapping building, constructing, erecting, putting up, raising, rearing, setting up doctoring, fixing, mending, patching, reconditioning, repairing, revampingcreating, inventingassembling, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, molding, producing, shapingbringing about, constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizingconserving, preserving, protecting, savingrebuilding, reconstructing, remodeling, renovating, restoring to diminish the physical strength ofendless months of inactivity wasted him debilitating, devitalizing, enervating, enfeebling, etiolating, prostrating, sapping, softening, tiring, weakening crippling, disabling, hamstringing, incapacitatingdepleting, depressing, exhausting, impoverishing, unmanning, washing outdamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, invaliding, laying upbreaking down, grinding (down), wearing down, wearing outparalyzing beefing (up), fortifying, strengthening energizing, invigorating, recruiting, rejuvenating, vitalizinghardening, seasoning, toughening in the 13th century |