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WASTER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: waster   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

Example:

uprooters of gravestones

Synonyms:

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("waster" is a kind of...):

bad person (a person who does harm to others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waster"):

annihilator (a total destroyer)

iconoclast; image breaker (a destroyer of images used in religious worship)

diversionist; saboteur; wrecker (someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks)

vandal (someone who willfully destroys or defaces property)

Derivation:

waste (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently

Synonyms:

waster; wastrel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("waster" is a kind of...):

prodigal; profligate; squanderer (a recklessly extravagant consumer)

Derivation:

waste (spend extravagantly)

waste (spend thoughtlessly; throw away)

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