waste

Roget category 638

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#638. Waste

noun

consumption, expenditure, exhaustion — dispersion etc. 73 — ebb — leakage etc. (exudation) 295 — loss etc. 776 — wear and tear — waste — prodigality etc. 818 — misuse etc. 679 — wasting etc. v. — rubbish etc. (useless) 645.
mountain in labor.

verb

spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust — impoverish — spill, drain, empty — disperse etc. 73.
cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away — burn the candle at both ends, waste — squander etc. 818.
waste its sweetness on the desert air" [Gray]; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine — employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel — labor in vain etc. (useless) 645 — cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve.
leak etc. (run out) 295 — run to waste — ebb — melt away, run dry, dry up.

adjective

wasted etc. v. — at a low ebb.
wasteful etc. (prodigal) 818 — penny wise and pound foolish.

phrase

magno conatu magnas nugas [Lat.] — le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle [Fr.] — idly busy rolls their world away" [Goldsmith].

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