waster

• Nom désignant une personne qui gaspille ou utilise négligemment les ressources, ou qui détruit ou ravage quelque chose.

A noun referring to a person who uses resources carelessly or extravagantly, or one who destroys or lays waste to something.

1. Wasteful personB2informal

   A person who uses resources carelessly or extravagantly, often for self-indulgence.

   Personne dépensière

   • He's such a waster; he spends all his money on video games.
   • Don't be a waster with the water supply.
   • She called him a waster for throwing away perfectly good food.

   Synonymesprodigalprofligatespendthriftsquandererwastrel

   Antonymesconservatoreconomizersaverthrift

2. Destroyer or ruinerC1formal

   A person who destroys, ruins, or lays waste to something.

   destructeur

   • The invaders were wasters of entire civilizations.
   • He was a waster of the land, leaving nothing but barren soil.
   • The vandals acted as wasters of public property.

   Synonymesdespoilerdestroyerruinervandal