WASTE (3)

waste (3). Waste, n. desolate ground, a wanton destruction

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Waste (?), v. i. 1. 1. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
The time wasteth night and day. Chaucer. The barrel of meal shall not waste. 1 Kings xvii. 14. But man dieth, and wasteth away. Job xiv. 10. 2. 2. (Sporting) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; — said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.