profligate

  1. Adjective.  Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
  2. Adjective.  Immoral; abandoned to vice.
  3. Noun.  An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
  4. Noun.  An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
  5. Verb.  (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.

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