- 2. Consume (foolishly), spend, expend, squander, dissipate, lose, misspend, misuse, fool away, fritter
away, muddle away, use prodigally.
- 3. Spend in vain, expend uselessly, lavish, squander, dissipate.
- 4. Destroy, desolate, ravage, pillage, plunder, strip, ruin, spoil, devastate, sack, devour.
- 5. (Law.) Damage, impair, injure.
Waste, v. n.
- 1. Dwindle, wither, pine, perish, decay, be diminished, waste away.
- 2. Swale, melt (as a candle), sweal, consume.
Waste, a.
- 1. Destroyed, ruined, ravaged, spoiled, devastated, desolated, stripped, bare.
- 2. Dreary, dismal, forlorn.
- 3. Wild, uncultivated, bare, untilled, unoccupied, unimproved.
- 4. Worthless, refuse, valueless, useless.
- 5. Superfluous, exuberant.
Waste, n.
- 1. Consumption, loss, diminution, decrement, expenditure, wasting, dissipation, wear and tear.
- 2. Squandering, prodigality, wanton destruction, loss.
- 3. Devastation, ravage, ruin, rapine, destruction, desolation, pillage, havoc.
- 4. Refuse, worthless matter, rubbish.
- 5. Wild, wilderness, desert, solitude, lonely place, deserted region.
- 6. Dreary void, expanse.