Word

waste, v.
(wasted, wastes, wasting)
freq. cnt. 18

spend thoughtlessly; throw away
<verb.possession> freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 10

blow squander waste

sample sentences

"He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"
"You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

waste waste waster

antonym

conserve

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

squanderer

semantic pointers

hypernym

use, expend

verb group

blow

hyponym

burn

use inefficiently or inappropriately
<verb.consumption> freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 8

waste

sample sentences

"waste heat"
"waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

waste waste

semantic pointers

hypernym

use, apply, employ, utilize, utilise

become physically weaker
<verb.body>

rot waste

sample sentences

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

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

wastage

semantic pointers

hypernym

deteriorate, devolve, drop, degenerate

hyponym

necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate

cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3

desolate devastate lay waste to ravage scourge waste

sample sentences

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

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

devastation devastation devastation devastation

lexical pointers

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waster

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

desolation desolation desolation

lexical pointers

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ravaging ravage

lexical pointers

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scourge

semantic pointers

hypernym

destroy, ruin

hyponym

ruin

cause to grow thin or weak
<verb.change>

emaciate macerate waste

sample sentences

"The treatment emaciated him"

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

wastage wasting

lexical pointers

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emaciation

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

maceration

semantic pointers

cause

emaciate

hypernym

debilitate, enfeeble, drain

lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

languish pine away waste

sample sentences

"After her husband died, she just pined away"

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

languisher

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

wastage

semantic pointers

hypernym

weaken

spend extravagantly
<verb.consumption> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

consume squander ware waste

sample sentences

"waste not, want not"

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

squandering squanderer

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

waste waster

semantic pointers

hypernym

spend, expend, drop

hyponym

drink, tope dissipate, fritter, frivol away, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away luxuriate, wanton lavish, shower overspend splurge, fling

get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
<verb.contact> freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1

do in knock off liquidate neutralise neutralize waste

sample sentences

"The mafia liquidated the informer"
"the double agent was neutralized"

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

liquidation liquidator

semantic pointers

hypernym

kill

run off as waste
<verb.motion>

run off waste

sample sentences

"The water wastes back into the ocean"

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

waste

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

runoff

semantic pointers

hypernym

flow, run, feed, course

get rid of
<verb.possession>

waste

sample sentences

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

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

waste

semantic pointers

hypernym

throw away, discard, dispose, throw out, toss away, cast aside, toss, put away, fling, toss out, chuck out, cast out, cast away