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verb
To use without result
Synonyms: dissipating, squandering, misapplying, misusing, losing, consuming, devouring, spending
Antonyms: profiting
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verb
Spend extravagantly
Synonyms: squandering, blowing, consuming, dissipating
Antonyms: conserving
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verb
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
Synonyms: ruining, murdering, exhausting, liquidating, withering, rotting, zapping, weakening, killing, trashing, indulging, stripping, squandering, sacking, off, refusing, diverting, ravaging, pining, pillaging, slaying, moldering, impoverishing, losing, littering, spilling, junking, fatiguing, idling, failing, depleting, blowing, enfeebling, dwindling, draining, destroying, dissipating, devouring, devastating, emptying, despoiling, abusing, desolating, deserting, spending, demolishing, declining, finishing, decaying, splurging, dawdling, consuming, scattering, chaffing, lavishing, neutralizing, atrophying
Antonyms: hoarding, saving
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verb
Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Synonyms: ravaging, devastating, scourging, wearing, emptying, draining, disappearing, decreasing, desolating, drooping, wilting, dwindling, decaying
Antonyms: preserving, creating, enriching, developing, building, growing
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verb
To cause the death of
Synonyms: zapping, slaying, killing, finishing, dispatching, destroying
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verb
To do away with completely and destructively
Synonyms: swallowing, eating, devouring, consuming
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verb
To fail to take advantage of
Synonyms: missing, losing
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verb
Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
Synonyms: languishing, weakening, waning, sinking, flagging, failing, fading, deteriorating, degenerating
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verb
To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work
Synonyms: wiling, killing, idling, dawdling
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noun
A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
Synonyms: cachexia, atrophy, wasting-away, cachexy