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Wastrel

Any waste thing or substance

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Prodigal 76% connected

Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or…

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Profligate 76% connected

Overthrown; beaten; conquered.

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Squanderer 76% connected

One who squanders.

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Squander 74% connected

To scatter; to disperse.

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Squander 74% connected

To scatter; to disperse.

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Ware 74% connected

Wore.

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Ware 74% connected

Wore.

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Waster 92% connected

One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Challenger noun · 86% connection

the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

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Champ noun · 86% connection

someone who has won first place in a competition

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Champion noun · 86% connection

someone who has won first place in a competition

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Chewer noun · 86% connection

someone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco)

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Client noun · 86% connection

someone who pays for goods or services

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Comer noun · 86% connection

someone with a promising future

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Competition noun · 86% connection

the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

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Competitor noun · 86% connection

the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

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Consumer noun · 86% connection

a person who uses goods or services

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Contender noun · 86% connection

the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

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Customer noun · 86% connection

someone who pays for goods or services

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Drinker noun · 86% connection

a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)

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Eater noun · 86% connection

someone who consumes food for nourishment

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Enemy noun · 86% connection

a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years"

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Favorite noun · 86% connection

a competitor thought likely to win

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Favourite noun · 86% connection

a competitor thought likely to win

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Feeder noun · 86% connection

someone who consumes food for nourishment

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Foe noun · 86% connection

a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years"

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Ablation noun · 78% connection

Wearing away; superficial waste.

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Abrade verb · 78% connection

To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks.

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Absume verb · 78% connection

To consume gradually; to waste away.

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Approve verb · 78% connection

To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.

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Atrophy verb · 78% connection

To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

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Attack verb · 78% connection

To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.

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Bangle verb · 78% connection

To waste by little and little; to fritter away.

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Bate verb · 78% connection

To waste away.

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Bezzle verb · 78% connection

To plunder; to waste in riot.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: waste, substance.
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biomass noun · 78% connection

plant materials and animal waste used as fuel

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: waste, substance.
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Blood noun · 78% connection

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing aw…

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Brood verb · 78% connection

Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

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Canker verb · 78% connection

To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.

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