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WASTER (waster)

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• WASTER (noun)
The noun WASTER has 2 senses:

1. someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently
2. a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

Familiarity information: WASTER used as a noun is rare.

• WASTER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

waster; wastrel

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

prodigal; profligate; squanderer (a recklessly extravagant consumer)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ruiner; uprooter; destroyer; waster; undoer

Context examples:

a destroyer of the environment / jealousy was his undoer / uprooters of gravestones

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)

"Beggars can't be choosers."
(English proverb)
"Not need to know French to ask to sleep outside"
(Breton proverb)
"When the axe came to the forest, the trees said: "The handle is one of us.""
(Armenian proverb)
"He whom the shoe fits should put it on."
(Dutch proverb)

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