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"text": "English: waste"
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"To eat at; to cause to decay or shrink."
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"To cleanse; to make something evanesce or evacuate."
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"To destroy; to utterly consume or eliminate:",
"To eliminate sin."
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"consume",
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"eliminate",
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"religion",
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[
"sin",
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"To destroy; to utterly consume or eliminate:",
"(figuratively, religion) To eliminate sin."
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"To kill or murder; to cause someone's death."
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"consume",
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"eliminate",
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"kill",
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"murder",
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[
"cause",
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"death",
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"To utilise or expend (resources or supplies):",
"To sap or use up; to totally expend."
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[
"sap",
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[
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"To waste resources; to expend wastefully."
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"expend",
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"resource",
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"supplies",
"supply#English"
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"waste",
"waste"
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"resources",
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[
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"To weaken; to become less strong or powerful."
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"strong",
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[
"evanesce",
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[
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"To violate or interrupt."
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[
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"(figurative, rare) To violate or interrupt."
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},
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"ipa": "/ˈwastən/"
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"word": "waaston"
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"word": "waastye"
},
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},
{
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"word": "wast"
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{
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},
{
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"word": "wasti"
},
{
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}
],
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{
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{
"form": "wasteth",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wastende",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wastynge",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wasted",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"participle",
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "weak",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "enm-conj-wk",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "wasten",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "to wasten",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "waste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "waste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wasted",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wastest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wastedest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wasteth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wasted",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "waste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "wasted",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "waste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wasten",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "waste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wasteden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wastede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wasteth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "waste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wastynge",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wastende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wasted",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "wasten",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"stem": "wast"
},
"expansion": "wasten (third-person singular simple present wasteth, present participle wastende, wastynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle wasted)",
"name": "enm-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "wast",
"y": "0"
},
"name": "enm-conj-wk"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To ruin or damage; to cause damage to:",
"To devastate; to make a wasteland or ruin."
],
"links": [
[
"ruin",
"ruin"
],
[
"damage",
"damage"
],
[
"devastate",
"devastate"
],
[
"make",
"make"
],
[
"wasteland",
"wasteland"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To ruin or damage; to cause damage to:",
"To enfeeble; to make weak or sickly."
],
"links": [
[
"ruin",
"ruin"
],
[
"damage",
"damage"
],
[
"enfeeble",
"enfeeble"
],
[
"make",
"make"
],
[
"weak",
"weak"
],
[
"sickly",
"sickly"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To ruin or damage; to cause damage to:",
"To eat at; to cause to decay or shrink."
],
"links": [
[
"ruin",
"ruin"
],
[
"damage",
"damage"
],
[
"eat",
"eat"
],
[
"at",
"at"
],
[
"decay",
"decay"
],
[
"shrink",
"shrink"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To destroy; to utterly consume or eliminate:",
"To break up; to cause to dissolve or disintegrate."
],
"links": [
[
"destroy",
"destroy"
],
[
"consume",
"consume"
],
[
"eliminate",
"eliminate"
],
[
"break up",
"break up"
],
[
"dissolve",
"dissolve"
],
[
"disintegrate",
"disintegrate"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To destroy; to utterly consume or eliminate:",
"To cleanse; to make something evanesce or evacuate."
],
"links": [
[
"destroy",
"destroy"
],
[
"consume",
"consume"
],
[
"eliminate",
"eliminate"
],
[
"cleanse",
"cleanse"
],
[
"evanesce",
"evanesce"
],
[
"evacuate",
"evacuate"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"enm:Religion"
],
"glosses": [
"To destroy; to utterly consume or eliminate:",
"To eliminate sin."
],
"links": [
[
"destroy",
"destroy"
],
[
"consume",
"consume"
],
[
"eliminate",
"eliminate"
],
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"sin",
"sin"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"To destroy; to utterly consume or eliminate:",
"(figuratively, religion) To eliminate sin."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To destroy; to utterly consume or eliminate:",
"To kill or murder; to cause someone's death."
],
"links": [
[
"destroy",
"destroy"
],
[
"consume",
"consume"
],
[
"eliminate",
"eliminate"
],
[
"kill",
"kill"
],
[
"murder",
"murder"
],
[
"cause",
"cause"
],
[
"death",
"death"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To utilise or expend (resources or supplies):",
"To sap or use up; to totally expend."
],
"links": [
[
"utilise",
"utilise"
],
[
"expend",
"expend"
],
[
"resource",
"resource#English"
],
[
"supplies",
"supply#English"
],
[
"sap",
"sap"
],
[
"use up",
"use up"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To utilise or expend (resources or supplies):",
"To waste resources; to expend wastefully."
],
"links": [
[
"utilise",
"utilise"
],
[
"expend",
"expend"
],
[
"resource",
"resource#English"
],
[
"supplies",
"supply#English"
],
[
"waste",
"waste"
],
[
"resources",
"resources"
],
[
"wastefully",
"wastefully"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To utilise or expend (resources or supplies):",
"To expend time (usually in an wasteful way)"
],
"links": [
[
"utilise",
"utilise"
],
[
"expend",
"expend"
],
[
"resource",
"resource#English"
],
[
"supplies",
"supply#English"
],
[
"time",
"time"
],
[
"wasteful",
"wasteful#English"
],
[
"way",
"way#English"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To weaken; to become less strong or powerful."
],
"links": [
[
"weaken",
"weaken"
],
[
"strong",
"strong"
],
[
"powerful",
"powerful"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To dissolve or evanesce; to become disintegrated."
],
"links": [
[
"dissolve",
"dissolve"
],
[
"evanesce",
"evanesce"
],
[
"disintegrated",
"disintegrated"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To violate or interrupt."
],
"links": [
[
"violate",
"violate"
],
[
"interrupt",
"interrupt"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative, rare) To violate or interrupt."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwaːstən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwastən/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "waaste"
},
{
"word": "waasten"
},
{
"word": "waaston"
},
{
"word": "waastye"
},
{
"word": "waist"
},
{
"word": "wast"
},
{
"word": "waste"
},
{
"word": "wasti"
},
{
"word": "wayst"
}
],
"word": "wasten"
}
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