English Dictionary

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Source : opted (171344)  - auto

Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
Source : opted (171345)  - auto

Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
Source : opted (171346)  - auto

To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
Source : opted (171349)  - auto

To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
Source : opted (171350)  - auto

To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
Source : opted (171351)  - auto

To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
Source : opted (171352)  - auto

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
Source : opted (171353)  - auto

To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
Source : opted (171354)  - auto

The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
Source : opted (171355)  - auto