waster

/ˈweɪstər/
/ˈweɪstə/
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Other forms: wasters

Definitions of waster
  1. noun
    someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently
    synonyms: wastrel
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    type of:
    prodigal, profligate, squanderer
    a recklessly extravagant person
  2. noun
    a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
    synonyms: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter
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    annihilator
    a total destroyer
    iconoclast, image breaker
    a destroyer of images used in religious worship
    diversionist, saboteur, wrecker
    someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
    vandal
    someone who willfully destroys or defaces property
    sleeper
    a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
    type of:
    bad person, malefactor
    a person who does harm to others
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