Definition of "wasteth" [wasteth]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waste. (verb)

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• "Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie."
• "Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
• ""Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday," the psalm tells believers."