verb (used with object)
1.
to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or withoutadequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: towaste money; to waste words.
2.
to fail or neglect to use: to waste an opportunity.
3.
to destroy or consume gradually; wear away: The waveswaste the rock of the shore.
4.
to wear down or reduce in bodily substance, health, orstrength; emaciate; enfeeble: to be wasted by disease or hunger.
5.
to destroy, devastate, or ruin: a country wasted by a long andfutile war.
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