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despoil; sack, loot, gut, strip, ransack, rifle; maraud, rape, harry, Chiefly Scot. reive, raid; wreak havoc upon, overrun, shatter, smash, crush, fell; annihilate, eradicate, extirpate, blast, bow up, raze.
-n. 5. dissipation, prodigality, squandering, misuse, consumption, overconsumption; depletion, exhaustion, draining, loss; misapplication, misemployment, abuse, neglect; lavishness, extravagance, indulgence, dissoluteness, profligacy; unthriftiness, improvidence, overspending, liberality; overindulgence, crapulousness, gluttony, abandonment.
6. impairment, weakening, degeneration, deterioration, regression; decay, emaciation, consumption, wastage, atrophy; diminution, lessening, lowering, decline, fall; ablation, corrosion, erosion, deliquescence; decrease, reduction, shortening, cut; wear, wear and tear, weathering; dilapidation, disintegration, decomposition, breakup, oxidation, spoilage.
7. devastation, destruction, ruin, desolation, ravage, havoc; wreckage, annihilation, eradication, obliteration, extirpation, extermination; ravishment, despoliation, spoliation, depredation, plunder, pillage, sack; ruination, demolition, razing, burning, leveling.
8. desert, wasteland, wilderness, emptiness, vastness; barrens, heath, dust bowl, salt flat, wilds, bush.
9. rubbish, trash, refuse, spilth, garbage, Chiefly Brit, wastrel, leavings, leftovers, remnants, residue, scraps, litter; scourings, offscourings, sweepings, wash, hogwash, slops; scum, dross, dregs, draff, slag, sediment, grounds, lees; alluvium, detritus, debris, deposits, Geol. diluvium; orts, odds and ends, rags, ends, ruins, butts, fag ends, stumps; shavings, parings, sawdust, chaff, filings; ashes, cinders, soot, smut, culm. 10. wastes excrement, feces, waste matter, excreta, droppings; dung, ordure, discharges, guano, egesta. -adj. 11. wild, desolate, barren, desert, arid; uninhabited, bare, empty, void, vacant, deserted, ghostly, ruined, destroyed, wrecked, ravaged, gutted; depopulated, unpeopled, unoccupied, solitary, lonely; dead, lifeless, fallow, unproductive, unfertile, infe-cund, sterile, unfruitful; stripped, desolated, spoiled, dismal, cheerless, bleak, dreary. 12. leftover, unused, useless, superfluous, extra, worthless, unserviceable, Archaic, losel; unnecessary, needless, of no use, unhelpful, unbeneficial, unprofitable.
wasted, adj. 1. dissipated, dissolute, intemperate, incontinent, self-indulgent; abandoned, wanton, profligate, debauched.
2. spent, consumed, used up, finished, exhausted, depleted; drained, emptied, gone, worn away, eaten up, burnt up; dried up, desiccated, sucked dry, dry, sere, fruitless, fallow, barren, sterile; (all with reference to drugs or alcohol) SI. burned-out, SI. wrecked, SI. zapped, SI. zonked.
3. wizened, gaunt, emaciated, shrunken, atrophied; withered, shriveled; skeletal, cadaverous, worn to the bones, corpse-like; deathly, wan, pallid, pale, washed-out.
wasteful, adj. prodigal, lavish, extravagant, profligate, spendthrift, thriftless, overindulgent, overliberal; profuse, excessive, improvident, too free, overgener-ous, free-handed; unthrifty, free and easy, easy come, easy go, penny-wise and pound-foolish; immoderate, squandering, overlavish, dissipative.
wastrel, n. spendthrift, waster, spender, big spender, squanderer; prodigal, prodigal son, scattergood, rounder.
watch, v. 1. look, observe, view, regard, see; look at, take in, gaze at, look on, Inf. spectate, eye, ogle, gape, stare at; notice, perceive, espy, detect, descry, sight; contemplate, behold, inspect, make note of, take stock of, scrutinize; survey, scan, examine, pore over, Inf. size up; mark, remark, glimpse, glance; look after, keep an eye on, follow, Inf keep tabs on, keep in sight, hold in view, spy upon, reconnoiter.
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