waste, v. squander, misspend, fritter [away], dissipate, dawdle; [desolate], [devastate], despoil, [sack], [pillage], [ravage], [strip]; [decline], [decay], [pine], wither, [dwindle], molder.

waste, a. [refuse], rejected, [unused], [unproductive], untilled, inarable, [worthless]; [desolate], devastated, stripped, ravaged, pillaged; [superfluous], [exuberant], [unnecessary]; excrementitious.

waste, n. [wasting], squandering, [dissipation], decrement, prodigality; wilderness, [wild], [desert]; remnants, [offal], recrement, [garbage], [refuse], [rubbish]; desolation, devastation [rapine], [ravage], [havoc], [destruction], sacking, [pillage], despoliation.

wasteful, a. [extravagant], [prodigal], unthrifty, improvident infrugal, [lavish], [thriftless].

waster, n. [spendthrift], [prodigal], squanderer.

wasting, n. squandering, [dissipation], prodigality, improvidence; emaciation, [decline].

watch, n. vigil, [outlook], [attention]; watcher, patrol, [watchman], sentry, perdue, [picket], [guard], [sentinel], vedette, guardsman, Argus.

watch, n. horologe.

watch, v. keep vigil, be on the [lookout], keep [guard].

watchful, a. [vigilant], [heedful], [attentive], [alert], circumspect [wary], Argus-eyed.