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Pos: v. t.
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun waster has 2 senses

1.  waster(n = noun.person) wastrel - someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently;
is a kind of prodigal, profligate, squanderer
Derived forms verb waste6, verb waste1

2.  waster(n = noun.person) destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter - a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones"
is a kind of bad person
has particulars: annihilator, iconoclast, image breaker, diversionist, saboteur, wrecker, vandal
Derived form verb waste9


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

waster, n. [OE. wastour, OF. wasteor, gasteor. See Waste, v. t.].

1.  One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. [1913 Webster]
"He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster." [1913 Webster]
"Sconces are great wasters of candles." [1913 Webster]

2.  An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]

3.  A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil. [1913 Webster]
"Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head." [1913 Webster]
"Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters." [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

waster, n.
1 a wasteful person.
2 colloq. a wastrel.