wasting one's time or money, wasteful spending

to waste money

passive, possible or honorific of やめる

quicken, hasten, speed up / advance, propel, accelerate, catalyze; push forward (a date)

(dialect or slang) imperative of やめる (yameru)

to quit / to stop / to cancel

to stop, to terminate, to cease, to discontinue, to quit / to abolish, to do away with

(dated) to ache

classical adnominal stative of 病む (yamu, “to fall ill”): has fallen ill, is sick

(transitive) to vex, to annoy, to cause distress, to make someone suffer / (intransitive, rare) to be vexed, to be bothered about something, to be distressed about something