waster Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently
wastrel.
noun a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
ruiner; uprooter; undoer; destroyer.
- a destroyer of the environment
- jealousy was his undoer
- uprooters of gravestones

OE. wastour, OF. wasteor, gasteor. See Waste, v. t.

One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9.

Sconces are great wasters of candles. Swift.
An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief. Halliwell.
A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head. Beau. & Fl.

Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters. Sir T. Browne.