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Wasting   /wˈeɪstɪŋ/   Listen
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.


adjective
Wasting  adj.  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
Wasting palsy (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.





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"Wasting" Quotes from Famous Books



... went on, "that you don't think me forward. I daresay you do. But I can't bear wasting time. Of course I heard that you were coming, so then I looked out for you in chapel to-day. I thought you looked so nice that I said to mother, 'I'll go and see her this very afternoon.' Of course I've known your aunts for ages. I'm always ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole
... was old fogy enough not to understand that it was the greatest game of the day, and Horace Plympton had written a letter to the Evening Times. Accordingly, when the time came for Fred to go to college I merely cautioned him generally against wasting his time, and uttered no fulminations against foot-ball ...
— The Opinions of a Philosopher • Robert Grant
... to the little inner satellite of Mars, scarcely eight miles in diameter, a tiny bit of broken metal and rock, utterly airless, but scarcely more than 3700 miles from the surface of Mars below. The Mars Center and Deenmor forts were wasting no power raying a ship at that distance. They could, of course, have damaged it, but not severely enough to make up for the loss of their strictly limited power. The photocells had been working overtime, every minute of available light had been used, and still scarcely 2100 tons of charged ...
— The Ultimate Weapon • John Wood Campbell
... idleness is a thousandfold greater in you than in other youths; for the fates of those who will one day be under your command hang upon your knowledge; lost moments now will be lost lives then, and every instant which you carelessly take for play, you buy with blood. But there is one way of wasting time, of all the vilest, because it wastes, not time only, but the interest and energy of your minds. Of all the ungentlemanly habits into which you can fall, the vilest is betting, or interesting yourselves in the issues of betting. It unites nearly every condition ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... clock will make you (1) conscious that it is nearly three in the morning, and I therefore ask you, gentlemen, instead of wasting more time, to put this question to yourselves, 'Are we, or are we not, here, for the purpose of ...
— How to Write Clearly - Rules and Exercises on English Composition • Edwin A. Abbott


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