Gradual deterioration or wasting away. / The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.

(geology) the movement downslope of soil and rock in response to gravity

Suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp. / Spiteful or irascible.

A member of a family of parasitic wasps whose larvae feed on other live insect larvae.

sodium carbonate used as a laundry aid

Alternative form of washed up.

(chiefly US) A machine, built into the waste tube of a domestic sink, that shreds unwanted food and flushes it away.

the alkaline waste material that is a byproduct of the Leblanc process

Alternative spelling of Euro wasp

Any of several solitary, predatory wasps, of the families Sphecidae or Crabronidae, that nest in the soil.