To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
To drink slowly, to make it last.
To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
To foster, to nourish.
To manage with care and economy.
To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
To treat kindly and with extra care.
To hold closely to one's chest
To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
A person trained to provide care for the sick.
A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
A nurse shark or dogfish.
To kill; to murder.
To devastate; to destroy.
To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
A disused mine or part of one.
Excrement or urine.
Gradual loss or decay.
Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
A vast expanse of water.
A large tract of uncultivated land.
A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
Barren; desert.
Superfluous; needless.
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
Useless and contemptible.
Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Unfortunate; disappointing.