Antonyms for wasting
ˈweɪ stɪŋwast·ing

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1. cachexia, cachexy, wastingnoun

   any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease

   Synonyms:
   cachexia, atrophy, cachexy, wasting away

2. atrophy, wasting, wasting awaynoun

   a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

   Synonyms:
   cachexia, withering, cachexy, wasting away, atrophy

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1. wastingnoun

   Synonyms:
   squandering, dissipation, prodigality, improvidence, emaciation, decline

How to use wasting in a sentence?

1. George Bernard Shaw:

   Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

2. Michele Hanisee:

   The centerpiece of Newsom's proposal would require a license to sell, and a background check just to buy, a box of ammunition, this would require the creation of another complicated, expensive and inevitably flawed database, which California officials will be unable to effectively maintain. New York already tried this approach, abandoning it after wasting millions of public dollars.

3. Sam Kass:

   In the United States we throw away around 40 % of what we produce ; and globally, 28 % of the land under cultivation grows food that ends up in landfills, not only are you wasting all of the energy and water -- and the emissions from nitrous oxide from fertilizers -- you then just dump that into a landfill, which produces methane in amounts that is just staggering.

4. Tony Blair, Speech to the Labor Party Conference 3 October 1995:

   …instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities.

5. Eileen Fisher:

   I think even 10 % of the profits is good for morale and for people feeling like they're really a part of this company. People speak up more when they see things that don't feel right or if people are wasting money over there.

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