waste
/ˈweɪ̯st/ verbe B1En français : détruire, dévaster, gaspiller, gâcher
- To devastate; to destroy.
- To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate. · We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.
- To kill; to murder.
- To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
Pluriel waste · He/she/it wastes · Prétérit wasted · Participe passé wasted · Forme en -ing wasting
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Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
“I think you might do something better with the time,” she said, “than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.”
“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting _it_.
And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron.
You’ve got as much money to waste as any of ’em, and yet you stick to what’s decent and moderate.
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