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Waste

/weɪst/

Use or spend something thoughtlessly or without care, often leading to its loss or uselessness.

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I gave her money, which her husband wasted.'And he sits there wasting precious time.'He thought of her as walking barefooted through a stony waste.

From Middle English wasten, from Anglo-French waster, from Latin vastare meaning to lay waste, devastate, from vastus meaning empty or desolate.

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