Read full poem →Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken
Heart of life, laid waste with wasting flame
Ere the change of things and thoughts requicken,
Dictionary Entry
To devastate, destroy
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
Synonyms
Antonyms
No antonyms yet.
Poetry examples for “wasting”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The wasting cloister, with the rest^
Was, in one instant, dispossessed.
Read full poem →The castle vanishes or rends)
The wasting cloiwer, with the reet.
Was, in one instant, dispOBBes&ed.
Read full poem →Why Philomel dost Tereus' lewdness mourn?
All wasting years have that complaint now[268] worn.
Thy tunes let this rare bird's sad funeral borrow;
Read full poem →While happy winds go laughing by,
Wasting the golden hours indoors,
Washing windows and scrubbing floors.
Read full poem →form? (Applause) What plausible reason can
be suggested for wasting the one great asset
which has come out of the war? How else shall
Read full poem →For California to remake his life,
And died there, after wasting all his life,
His father's fortune, too.
Read full poem →And bitter herbs of exile and its fears,
The wasting famine of the heart they fed,
And slaked its thirst with marah of their tears.
Read full poem →To husband out life's taper at the close,
And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,
Read full poem →From the pure sunlight and the supreme air,
We live beneath Time’s wasting sovereignty,
It is the child of all eternity.
