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Synonyms and Antonyms of wasting
- he wasted his lottery winnings on booze-soaked nights with gold diggers
- one country attempting to waste another
beating, besting, clobbering, conquering, crushing, defeating, drubbing, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), routing, scotching, skunking, subduing, surmounting, thrashing, trimming, triumphing (over), trouncing, walloping, whipping, winning (against)
blasting, blowing up, breaking, crippling, damaging, defacing, deteriorating, disfiguring, disintegrating, dissolving, dynamiting, harming, impairing, injuring, mangling, marring, mutilating, spoiling, vitiating
eroding, scouring, sweeping (away), washing out, wearing (away)
dilapidating, disassembling, dismantling, gutting, taking down, unbuilding, undoing, unmaking
blotting out, effacing, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, removing, rooting (out), snuffing (out), stamping (out), wiping out
despoiling, havocking, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sacking, trampling, trashing, vandalizing
assassinating, butchering, cutting down, dispatching, executing, felling, killing, killing off, massacring, mowing (down), murdering, slaughtering, slaying, taking out, zapping
doctoring, fixing, mending, patching, reconditioning, repairing, revamping
assembling, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, molding, producing, shaping
bringing about, constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizing
conserving, preserving, protecting, saving
rebuilding, reconstructing, remodeling, renovating, restoring
- endless months of inactivity wasted him
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