WASTES

Spend thoughtlessly; throw away

Example: "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"

• squander  18

• expend  16
• use  3

• burn  6

• conserve  13

Use inefficiently or inappropriately

Example: "Waste heat"

Dispose of

Example: "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"

Run off as waste

Example: "The water wastes back into the ocean"

• run off

Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

Example: "The mafia liquidated the informer"

• do in
• knock off
• liquidate  19
• neutralise  10
• neutralize  19

Spend extravagantly

Example: "Waste not, want not"

• consume  11
• squander  18
• ware  7

• drop  7
• expend  16
• spend  8

• drink  10
• tope  6
• dissipate  12
• fool  7
• • fool away
  • fritter  10
  • fritter away
  • frivol away
  • shoot  8
  • luxuriate  16
  • wanton  9
  • lavish  12
  • shower  12
  • overspend  15
  • fling  9
  • splurge  10
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Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

Example: "After her husband died, she just pined away"

• languish  12
• pine away

Cause to grow thin or weak

Example: "The treatment emaciated him"

• emaciate  12
• macerate  12

Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

Example: "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

• desolate  9
• devastate  13
• lay waste to
• ravage  10
• scourge  10

• destroy  11
• ruin  4

• ruin  4

Become physically weaker

Example: "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

• rot  3

• degenerate  12
• deteriorate  12
• devolve  14
• drop  7

• gangrene  10
• mortify  15
• necrose  9
• sphacelate  17