waster

waster
    n 1: someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn:
         {wastrel}, {waster}]
    2: a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer
       of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of
       gravestones" [syn: {destroyer}, {ruiner}, {undoer}, {waster},
       {uprooter}]
    

Waster \Wast"er\, n. [OE. wastour, OF. wasteor, gasteor. See
   {Waste}, v. t.]
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   1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who
      consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a
      prodigal.
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            He also that is slothful in his work is brother to
            him that is a great waster.           --Prov. xviii.
                                                  9.
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            Sconces are great wasters of candles. --Swift.
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   2. An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to
      waste; -- called also a {thief}. --Halliwell.
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   3. A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a
      foil.
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            Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow
            for a broken head.                    --Beau. & Fl.
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            Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of
            reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters.
                                                  --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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