Antonyms for wasting

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

Synonyms for wasting

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