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Grammar : Verb
Spell : wey-sting
Phonetic Transcription : ˈweɪ stɪŋ



Definition of wasting

Origin :
  • c.1200, "desolate regions," from Old French wast, from Latin vastum, neuter of vastus "waste" (see waste (v.)).
  • Replaced Old English westen, woesten "a desert, wilderness," from the Latin word. Meaning "useless expenditure" is recorded from c.1300; sense of "refuse matter" is attested from c.1400. Waste basket first recorded 1850. Waste-paper first recorded 1580s.
  • verb spend or use without thought; dwindle
  • verb ruin, destroy
Example sentences :
  • As long as a majority was prepared, it was wasting money to conciliate any body else.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 » by Various
  • Of course, every effort should be made to keep the ice from wasting.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Wasting no more words, I marched off to the fountainhead for information.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • And Ray pressed his thin, wasting hand across his damp forehead.
  • Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy
  • She must know that on a day like this he would not be wasting the light,—that he would be working.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • Another warned me that I was wasting my best years in the hamlet.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • But his mood had been diverted, and he presently found that he was wasting time.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Yet, after a minute, he said to himself that he was wasting his time in both these proceedings.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • She seemed to be incapable of wasting time or of waywardness.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • Others had pneumonia and were wasting beneath the stress of their frightful cough.
  • Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola

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