Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wasting
2 senses of wasting
Sense 1
cachexia, cachexy, wasting -- (any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease)
=> infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism -- (the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age))
Sense 2
atrophy, wasting, wasting away -- (a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse)
=> symptom -- ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Antonyms of verb waste
1 of 10 senses of waste
Sense 1
waste, blow, squander -- (spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree")
Antonym of conserve (Sense 3)
=> conserve, husband, economize, economise -- (use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb waste
10 senses of waste
Sense 1
waste, blow, squander -- (spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree")
=> use, expend -- (use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions")
Sense 2
waste -- (use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience")
=> use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ -- (put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer")
Sense 3
waste -- (get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer")
=> discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away -- (throw or cast away; "Put away your worries")
Sense 4
waste, run off -- (run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean")
=> run, flow, feed, course -- (move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi")
Sense 5
neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in -- (get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized")
=> kill -- (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays")
Sense 6
consume, squander, waste, ware -- (spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not")
=> spend, expend, drop -- (pay out; "spend money")
Sense 7
pine away, waste, languish -- (lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away")
=> weaken -- (become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days")
Sense 8
waste, emaciate, macerate -- (cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him")
=> enfeeble, debilitate, drain -- (make weak; "Life in the camp drained him")
Sense 9
lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge -- (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion")
=> destroy, ruin -- (destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up")
Sense 10
waste, rot -- (become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world")
=> devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate -- (grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match")
