(transitive, intransitive) To make or become waste (i.e. barren, dejected, dismal, feeble, or sickly) or wasted

simple past tense and past participle of wasten

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wasten

present participle of wasten

plural of wasteness

(obsolete) The state of being laid waste; desolation. / (now rare) The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren. / (obsolete) A wilderness.

A surname from French.