WASTE Copy link • WASTE 1. v. Transitively. To consume, destroy, consumere: absumere: conficere (e.g., of care, etc.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) conficere et consumere: haurire (of fire; of which consumere, absumere, are also used). Anybody is wasted by grief, aegritudo exest alicujus animum: to be wasted by grief, maerore consumi: to waste one’s energies, strength, etc., vires consumere: time wastes all things, nihil est quod non conficiat vetustas: to waste itself, se conficere; tabescere: wasting, tabificus (e.g., perturbationes, morbus); omnia hauriens (of fire). To lavish (e.g., PROP.), effundere, conficere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) effundere et consumere: dissipare: obligurire: lacerare (e.g., patrimonium, patria bona): perdere (e.g., tempus; or tempore abuti). To devastate, Vid: Intransitively, se conficere: tabescere: contabescere (to waste away gradually; of persons; e.g., morbo, desiderio). 2. adj. Desolate, Vid: Devastated, by the past participle of verbs in To DEVASTATE. To lay waste, vastare; devastare; pervastare; populari; depopulari; perpopulari [SYN. in To DEVASTATE]: to lay waste by fire and sword, ferro ignique or igni ferroque vastare; ferro flammisque pervastare. Uncultivated, incultus (opposed to cultus or consitus): vastus (not planted with trees or built upon; opposed to consitus, coaedificatus). To stand or lie waste, vacare (of places or districts of a country, etc.; Vid: also, UNCULTIVATED). Stripped, [Vid: DEPRIVED]. Worthless, useless, parvi pretii (of little value): tenuis (slight, trifling): levis (without intrinsic value, slight; facete levidensis; Vid: also, SLIGHT). Waste-book, adversaria, -orum, neuter (of merchants, Cic., Rosc. Com., 2, 5): manuale (ap. Martialis, 14, 84, a book of notices): epitome (ἐπιτομή = summarium: liber in angustum coactus): enchiridion (ἐγχειρίδιον, a hand-book, Pomponius, Dig. 1, 2, 2). Waste lands, loca deserta or inculta; campi inculti (poetical): also, deserta et inhospita tesqua (Hor., Ep., 1, 14, 19): loca exusta solis ardoribus (parched up by the sun): also, regio deserta: loca deserta, or simply deserta, -orum, neuter (uninhabited from sterility, etc.): also to be formed by vastus ab natura et humano cultu (entirely waste, Sall., Jug., 48, 2). Waste-paper, chartae ineptae (Hor., Ep., 2, 1, 270). To be used for waste-paper, inter chartas ineptas referri: to write verses fit only for waste-paper, *scribere carmina quae inter chartas ineptas referri debent: a sheet of waste-paper, charta inepta (Hor., Ep., 2, 1, 270). Waste-wood, scobis or scobs (fragments of boring, filing, rasping, sawing, etc.): recisamentum (from carving, etc.). 3. s. Destruction, Vid: Desolate tract of land [Vid: “WASTE lands,” DESERT]. Encroachment on a waste, building erected on a waste, proaedificatum (= “quod in publicum solum processit,” Festus). Useless expenditure, sumtus effusi or profusi: profusa luxuria (luxury in general): profusio (profusion, the act of spending wastefully; Vid: DISSIPATION). Loss, damnum: detrimentum: dispendium. [SYN. in LOSS.] (The words are found in this connection and order.) damnum et detrimentum: jactura atque damnum, or jactura et detrimentum. Fallings-off in the working of any material, ramentum (of metals, skins, etc., by filing, scraping, etc.): scobis or scobs (of wood, metals, by sawing, filing, boring, etc.): intertrimentum: retrimentum (by melting): recisamentum (by carving, chiseling, etc.). Mischief, fraus (injury on the part of another by which we suffer): noxa (damage which anybody causes by destroying anything). A wasting disease; Vid. CONSUMPTION, DECLINE.