Rise
Rise verb - To become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number.
Waste
Waste verb - To use up carelessly.
How words are described
| long | long rise | long waste |
| complete | complete rise | complete waste |
| selfish | selfish rise | selfish waste |
| real | real rise | real waste |
| Other adjectives: massive, big, huge, little, tragic, glowing, military, nuclear, global. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When the brother climbs out it turns out that the cave was really the mouth of the god, who eats the sister so it can rise from its slumber and lay waste to the world.
Source: Cave Mouth -
Those same Reapers can also make planetfall, dwarfing high-rise towers as they lumber across a cityscape and lay waste to everything, often in large numbers.
Source: The Juggernaut -
In the Gauntlet/Unlimited Mode in 3 Ultimate the level that unlocks stage 2 because it's the first set of levels that has 3 battlefields and the last one is battle with Nobunaga and his army with some scripted events that can make you waste time and allow the Miasma Level to rise.
Source: Video Game / Warriors Orochi
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