wasten

verb1

1. •
   To make or become waste (i.e. barren, dejected, dismal, feeble, or sickly) or wasted

   • […] do you love me, Mabel? not a pennysworth, Joe troves I lost I never looked for: cracked fountain pens that stained my fingers wastened by irreconcilable degrees into the dust. — 1962