wasten

== English == === Etymology === From waste (“empty, barren, dejected, dismal”, adjective) +‎ -en. === Verb === wasten (third-person singular simple present wastens, present participle wastening, simple past and past participle wastened) (ambitransitive) To make or become waste (i.e. barren, dejected, dismal, feeble, or sickly) or wasted ==== Synonyms ==== (to make or become feeble): weaken, wane === Anagrams === Tewans, wanest == Dutch == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʋɑs.tə(n)/ === Verb === wasten inflection of wassen: plural past indicative (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive == Middle English == === Alternative forms === waaste, waasten, waaston, waastye, waist, wast, waste, wayst wasti (Somerset); wastyn (East Anglia) === Etymology === Borrowed from Anglo-Norman waster (Parisien guaster), from Latin vāstō, with influence from Frankish *wōstijan; equivalent to wast (“desolate”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix). Compare westen (“to devastate”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwaːstən/, /ˈwastən/ === Verb === wasten (third-person singular simple present wasteth, present participle wastende, wastynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle wasted) To ruin or damage; to cause damage to: To devastate; to make a wasteland or ruin. To enfeeble; to make weak or sickly. To eat at; to cause to decay or shrink. To destroy; to utterly consume or eliminate: To break up; to cause to dissolve or disintegrate. To cleanse; to make something evanesce or evacuate. (figuratively, religion) To eliminate sin. To kill or murder; to cause someone's death. To utilise or expend (resources or supplies): To sap or use up; to totally expend. To waste resources; to expend wastefully. To expend time (usually in a wasteful way) To weaken; to become less strong or powerful. To dissolve or evanesce; to become disintegrated. (figurative, rare) To violate or interrupt. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: waste Scots: waste ==== References ==== “wā̆sten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.