waste

Strongest match

misuse

Strong matches

decay, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, dissipation, disuse, exhaustion, expenditure, extravagance, fritter, havoc, improvidence, lavishness, loss, misapplication, overdoing, prodigality, ravage, ruin, squander, squandering, wastage, wastefulness

Weak matches

lost opportunity, unthriftiness

Strong matches

badlands, barren, bog, brush, bush, desert, fen, jungle, marsh, marshland, moor, quagmire, solitude, swamp, tundra, void, wasteland, wild, wilderness, wilds

Weak matches

brushland, dust bowl

Strongest matches

debris, rubbish, scrap, trash

Strong matches

dreck, dregs, dross, excess, hogwash, junk, leavings, leftovers, litter, offal, rubble, ruins, rummage, slop, sweepings, swill

Weak match

offscourings

Strongest matches

blow, consume, deplete, dissipate, divert, drain, exhaust, lavish, lose, misuse, squander, undermine

Strong matches

atrophy, corrode, crumble, debilitate, decay, decline, decrease, disable, disappear, droop, ebb, emaciate, empty, enfeeble, fade, gnaw, misapply, perish, sap, sink, splurge, thin, wane, wear, wilt, wither

Weak matches

be of no avail, burn up, eat away, fritter away, frivol away, gamble away, go to waste, misemploy, pour down the drain, run dry, run through, throw away, trifle away, wear out

Strongest matches

reduce, spoil

Strong matches

desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, pillage, rape, ravage, raze, sack

Weak matches

depredate, lay waste, spoliate, wreak havoc