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waster
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun waster has 2 senses
- waster(n = noun.person) wastrel - someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently; Array is a kind of prodigal, profligate, squanderer
- waster(n = noun.person) destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter - a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones" has particulars: annihilator, iconoclast, image breaker, diversionist, saboteur, wrecker, vandal
Derived forms verb waste6, verb waste1
is a kind of bad person
Derived form verb waste9
CIDE DICTIONARY
- One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. [1913 Webster]"He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster." [1913 Webster]"Sconces are great wasters of candles." [1913 Webster]
- An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a
thief . Halliwell. [1913 Webster] - A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil. [1913 Webster]"Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head." [1913 Webster]"Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters." [1913 Webster]
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