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wasting
To devastate, destroy
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 7
- Starts with
- W
- Ends with
- G
- Contains
- ASTIN
- Scrabble score
- 11
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
Meaning
Definitions
verb
To devastate, destroy
To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
“We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.”
To kill; to murder.
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
noun
Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
“muscular wastings”
The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.
adjective
Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.
In context
Example Sentences
We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.
muscular wastings
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