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Where does “wasten” come from?

wasten (Middle English) comes from Old Northern French waster — to waste, devastate.

wasten (Middle English): to waste, lay waste

Definitions

  1. to waste, lay waste

Ancestry of “wasten”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Northern Frenchwasterto waste, devastate
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