Set up
Set up verb - To restore to a healthy condition.
Usage example: don't worry, the doctor will set you up in no time
Waste
Waste verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
Usage example: one country attempting to waste another
Both terms in one sentence
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He knew all about the spies, and set up an elaborate hoax to waste their time and make Garsik look foolish.
Source: Kansas City Shuffle - Everything in the store is explicitly designed for combat, so did they set up shop and wait for years until some student decided he needed to lay waste to a rival school with a sword?
Source: An Economy Is You -
The old live-action/animated Saturday morning TV show Drawing Power had a cartoonist with a basketball net set up over her waste basket, where she throws the crumpled-up piece of paper from her drawing board into.
Source: Wastebasket Ball
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Waste and Set up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 09, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/set_up/waste
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Waste or Set up. 2016. Accessed August 09, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/set_up/waste.
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