Conserve and Waste

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Conserve

Conserve verb - To avoid the wasteful or destructive use of.
Usage example: the need to conserve oil and other finite fossil fuels
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Waste is an antonym for conserve in save topic.
Nearby Words: conservation, conserving, conserved

Waste

Waste verb - To use up carelessly.
Usage example: he wasted his lottery winnings on booze-soaked nights with gold diggers
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Conserve is an antonym for waste.
Nearby Words: wasted, wasting, wasteful, wastage, wastefulness
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Common collocations

effort conserve effort waste effort
energy conserve energy waste energy
power conserve power waste power
life conserve life waste life
Other words: men, resources, time, space, money, supplies, troops, electricity, magic, items, ammunition, ammo, spells, lives, amounts, arrows.
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