"Waste" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

Spoil or destruction, done or permitted, to lands, houses, gardens, trees, or other corporeal hereditaments, hy the tenant thereof, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder. 2 Bl. Comm. 281

That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated,
uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or
unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.

Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength,
value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow
less.

That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse.
Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the
working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery,
absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal;
gloomy; cheerless.

The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a
squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure;
devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by
use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.

Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse;
rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a
jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods,
fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the
prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.

To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by
constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally;
to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to
lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by
scattering or injury.

Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or
filled with refuse.

To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or
by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.