Waste: v.tr. (word coming from the western dialect word gapailler and Provençal gaspilha; probably of Gallic origin).
The verb “to waste” has several meanings:
1. Spending, consuming indiscriminately, unnecessarily.
Squandering one's fortune, one's money (squandering; colloquial: snapping, crunching, throwing money out the window, burning the candle at both ends).
Wasting water in times of drought (wasting; wasting).
Quote from the French writer Roger Caillois (19...
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