gastar

Meaning

1. (reflexive,transitive) to spend (money, time, resources)
2. (reflexive,transitive) to wear, wear out (deteriorate by using)
3. (transitive) to use up, to expend, to consume (energy, water etc.)
4. (transitive) to play (jokes)
5. (transitive) to have or wear
6. (transitive) to waste (e.g. gas, money, energy, one's breath)

Concepts

spend

expend

consume

waste

use

squander

wear out

disburse

wear away

exhaust

abrade

damage

lay out

wear down

go through

hackney

wear

burn

act

spoil

take

shell out

desolate

devastate

lay waste to

ravage

scourge

ware

task

tax

abrase

corrade

rub down

rub off

wear off

fray

frazzle

drop

play out

run down

sap

tire

write out

Hyphenated as

gas‧tar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡasˈtaɾ/

Etymology

Likely inherited from Latin vastāre, with the initial consonant influenced by Frankish *wōstijan and with the resulting /ɡw/ reducing to /w/ in unstressed initial position, as also in galardón.