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n. [useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting]

n. (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

n. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"

thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness

n. the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"

waste

v. use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"

waste

v. get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"

waste, run off

v. run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"

waste, ware, consume, squander

v. spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

pine away, waste, languish

v. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"

waste, emaciate, macerate

v. cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"

consume, squander, waste, ware

v. spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

waste, blow, squander

v. spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in

v. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"

lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge

v. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

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godforsaken, waste, wild

adj. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"

waste, scrap, cast-off, discarded, junked

adj. thrown away; "wearing someone's cast-off clothes"; "throwaway children living on the streets"; "salvaged some thrown-away furniture"

capriciousness, unpredictability

n. the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses

recklessness, foolhardiness, rashness

n. the trait of giving little thought to danger

desert

n. arid land with little or no vegetation

gratify, pander, indulge

v. yield (to); give satisfaction to

shower

v. provide abundantly with; "He showered her with presents"

splurge

v. be showy or ostentatious

fail

v. get worse; "Her health is declining"

worsen, decline

v. grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"

drop

v. fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death; "shop til you drop"

dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down

v. become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"

languish, fade

v. become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

ease up, ease off, slacken off, flag

v. become less intense

idle, laze, slug, stagnate

v. be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"

shrink, shrivel

v. decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"

purse, wrinkle

v. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips"

waste, blow, squander

v. spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

abuse

v. use wrongly or improperly or excessively; "Her husband often abuses alcohol"; "while she was pregnant, she abused drugs"

dissipate

v. live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption

devour, down, consume, go through

v. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out

v. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

spend

v. spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days"

gratify, pander, indulge

v. yield (to); give satisfaction to

obliterate, efface

v. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

sack, plunder

v. plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"

level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down

v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"

demolish, pulverize, pulverise

v. destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"

plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray

v. steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

arid, desiccate, desiccated

adj. lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo

childless

adj. without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"

unsettled

adj. not yet settled; "unsettled territory"

futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing

adj. producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"

inutile

adj. not worth using

unserviceable, unusable, unuseable

adj. not capable of being used

save, lay aside, save up

v. accumulate money for future use; "He saves half his salary"

hoard, stash, cache, lay away, hive up, squirrel away

v. save up as for future use

conserve

v. preserve with sugar; "Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard"

save, preserve

v. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

retrench

v. tighten one's belt; use resources carefully

write, save

v. record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"

populous, thickly settled

adj. densely populated

verdant

adj. characterized by abundance of verdure

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