0 present participle of waste
1 to use too much of something or use something badly when there is a limited amount of it:
2 to kill someone
We have to change the public's perception that money is being wasted.
If you'd got on with your work instead of wasting time chatting, you'd be finished by now.
Have some more vegetables - it would be a shame to waste them.
Wasting time scanning too much information in order to get a complex picture of various factors can be fatal in real life conditions.
Lower limbs are affected more than upper limbs, but foot and wrist drop, distal muscle weakness and wasting may be noted.
She is wasting her rising energies in desperate efforts to reanimate dead forms.
