Synonyms of the word

wanton

• adj. (obsolete) Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.
• adj. Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.
• adj. (obsolete) Playful, sportive; being merry or carefree (often used figuratively).
• adj. (obsolete) Self-indulgent, fond of excess; luxurious.
• adj. Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of…
• adj. (obsolete) Extravagant, unrestrained; excessive (of speech or thought).
• n. A pampered or coddled person.
• n. An overly playful person; a trifler.
• n. A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.
• n. (archaic) A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.
• v. (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
• v. (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (often with away).
• v. (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

behave

• v. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
• v. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
• v. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.

butterfly

• n. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally…
• n. (now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
• n. The butterfly stroke.
• n. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
• v. (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting…
• v. (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound)…

consume

• v. (transitive) To use up.
• v. (transitive) To use (without using up).
• v. (transitive) To eat.
• v. (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy completely.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.

coquet

• n. A flirtatious female; a coquette.
• n. (obsolete) A flirtatious male.
• v. To act as a flirt or coquet.
• v. To waste time; to dally.
• v. To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard,…

coquette

• n. A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.
• v. Alternative form of coquet.

dally

• v. To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.
• v. To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (compare…
• v. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
• v. To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel…
• n. Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.

do

• v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
• v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
• v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
• v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
• v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• v. To cook.
• v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
• v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
• v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
• v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
• v. (transitive) To take drugs.
• v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
• n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
• n. (informal) A hairdo.
• n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
• n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
• n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
• n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
• adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

easy

• adj. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
• adj. Requiring little skill or effort.
• adj. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
• adj. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
• adj. (informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
• adj. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
• adj. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
• adv. In a relaxed or casual manner.
• adv. In a manner without strictness or harshness.
• adv. Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
• adv. Not difficult, not hard.
• n. Something that is easy.
• v. (rowing) Synonym of easy-oar.

expend

• v. (transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource).
• v. (transitive, rare, of money) to spend, disburse.

flirt

• n. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion.
• n. One who flirts.
• n. An act of flirting.
• v. (transitive) To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
• v. (intransitive) To jeer at; to mock.
• v. (intransitive) To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
• v. (transitive) To blurt out.
• v. (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in…
• v. (intransitive) To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
• adj. pert; wanton.

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

live

• v. (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
• v. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
• v. (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
• v. (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
• v. (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
• v. (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
• v. (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
• v. (intransitive) To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by "on" or "upon") To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself;…
• v. (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full rich life.
• adj. (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
• adj. Being in existence; actual.
• adj. Having active properties; being energized.
• adj. Operational; being in actual use rather than in testing.
• adj. (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
• adj. (sports) Still in active play.
• adj. (broadcasting) Seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens.
• adj. Of a performance or speech, in person.
• adj. Of a recorded performance, made in front of an audience, or not having been edited after recording.
• adj. Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.
• adj. (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution…
• adj. (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
• adj. Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
• adj. Being in a state of ignition; burning.
• adj. (obsolete) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing.
• adj. (obsolete) Vivid; bright.
• adv. Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.
• adv. Of making a performance or speech, in person.

loose

• v. (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
• v. (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
• v. (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
• v. (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
• v. (archery) to shoot (an arrow).
• v. (obsolete) To set sail.
• v. (obsolete) To solve; to interpret.
• adj. Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
• adj. Not held or packaged together.
• adj. Not under control.
• adj. Not fitting closely.
• adj. Not compact.
• adj. Relaxed.
• adj. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
• adj. Indiscreet.
• adj. (dated) Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
• adj. (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
• adj. (dated) Not costive; having lax bowels.
• n. (archery) The release of an arrow.
• n. (obsolete) A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
• n. (rugby) All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
• n. Freedom from restraint.
• n. A letting go; discharge.
• interj. (archery) begin shooting; release your arrows.
• v. Misspelling of lose.

luxuriate

• v. (intransitive) To enjoy luxury.

mash

• n. (obsolete) A mesh.
• n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
• n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
• n. Mashed potatoes.
• n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
• n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
• v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
• v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
• v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
• v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
• n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
• n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
• n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

motiveless

• adj. Without a motive.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

philander

• n. A lover.
• n. A South American opossum, bare-tailed woolly opossum, Caluromys philander, formerly Didelphis philander.
• n. An Australian bandicoot, greater bilby or bilby, Macrotis lagotis, formerly Perameles lagotis.
• v. To make love to women; to play the male flirt.

piddle

• n. (Britain, euphemistic, slang) An act of urination.
• v. (Britain, euphemistic, slang) To urinate.
• v. To waste time; often used as a euphemism for piss and followed by away.

promiscuous

• adj. Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
• adj. Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
• adj. Indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
• adj. (networking) The mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended…

romance

• n. A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
• n. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
• n. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
• n. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
• n. A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
• n. A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
• n. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
• n. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
• n. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
• n. (music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.
• v. Woo; court.
• v. (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.

sensualist

• n. A person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations.
• n. One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.

sluttish

• adj. (vulgar) Like a slut; sexually promiscuous.
• adj. (chiefly dated) Dirty or untidy; disorderly.

spend

• v. To pay out (money).
• v. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
• v. (dated) To squander.
• v. To exhaust, to wear out.
• v. To consume, to use up (time).
• v. (dated, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
• v. (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
• v. To be diffused; to spread.
• v. (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
• n. Amount spent (during a period), expenditure.
• n. (pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money.
• n. Discharged semen.
• n. Vaginal discharge.

squander

• v. To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
• v. (obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
• v. (obsolete) To wander at random; to scatter.

trifle

• n. An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
• n. An insignificant amount.
• n. Anything that is of little importance or worth.
• n. A particular kind of pewter.
• n. (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
• v. (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
• v. (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
• v. (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
• v. (transitive) To squander or waste.

unchaste

• adj. Not chaste; not continent; libidinous; lewd.

unmotivated

• adj. Lacking motivation, without impetus to strive or excel.

unprovoked

• adj. Happening without provocation or motivation.

ware

• adj. (poetic) aware.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
• n. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
• n. (in the plural) See wares.
• n. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
• n. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
• n. (Ireland) Crockery.
• v. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
• v. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
• adj. (obsolete) wary; cautious.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) seaweed.
• v. (nautical) To wear, or veer.

waste

• n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
• n. Excrement or urine.
• n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
• n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
• n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
• n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
• n. A vast expanse of water.
• n. A disused mine or part of one.
• n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
• n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
• n. Gradual loss or decay.
• n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
• n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
• n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
• n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
• adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
• adj. Barren; desert.
• adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
• adj. Superfluous; needless.
• adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
• adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
• v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
• v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
• v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
• v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
• v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
• v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…