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waste

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GO TO WASTE,

LAY WASTE.

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go to waste

[go to waste] {v. phr.} To be wasted or lost; not used. * /The strawberries went to waste because there was nobody to pick them./ * /Joe's work on the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

lay waste

[lay waste] {v. phr.}, {literary} To cause wide and great damage to; destroy and leave in ruins; wreck. * /Enemy soldiers laid waste the land./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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waste away

[waste away] {v.} To become more thin and weak every day. * /Jane is wasting away with tuberculosis./ * /After Mrs. Barnes died, her husband wasted away with grief./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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