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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of waste

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waste + -est

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Examples

  • As it was with me, so it is with thee; thou wastest the sweet of thy life and the joyance of shine hours.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then asked the Kazi, “How cometh it that thou wastest thy youth with this Jew?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As was with me, so it is with thee; thou wastest thy whole life and squanderest the joys in which thy days are rife.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I, a poore miserable Lady, who, for the space of eight yeeres now fully compleated, have loved thee: more dearely then mine owne life, finde now (to my hearts endlesse griefe) how thou wastest and consumest thy desires, to delight them with a strange woman, like a most vile and wicked man as thou art.

    The Decameron 2004

  • (TO BLOOM) Thou thoughtest as how thou wastest invisible.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Thou wastest words; for thou wilt never persuade me.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • Here Clopin interrupted him: “Thou wastest time with thy patter.

    VI. The Broken Pitcher. Book II 1917

  • _ (To Bloom) _ Thou thoughtest as how thou wastest invisible.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Said she, "O youth, by Allah! thou wastest thy life to no purpose and seekest thy death without cause, so rise up and save thyself, for the Elephant will be here this very hour."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • As it was with me, so it is with thee; thou wastest the sweet of thy life and the joyance of shine hours.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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