Definitions for wasterˈweɪ stər

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

wast•erˈweɪ stər(n.)

  1. a person or thing that wastes money, etc.

  2. a destroyer; ruiner.

Origin of waster:

1300–50; ME < AF wastere, wastour (see -or2)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. wastrel, waster(noun)

    someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently

  2. destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter(noun)

    a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

    "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones"

Webster Dictionary

  1. Waster(verb)

    one who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal

  2. Waster(verb)

    an imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief

  3. Waster(verb)

    a kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil


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