'Wasted' in the Bible

But there were some who said indignantly among themselves, "Why has the ointment been thus wasted?

So he said to the gardener, "'See, this is the third year I have come to look for fruit on this fig-tree and cannot find any. Cut it down. Why should so much ground be actually wasted?'

No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.