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Waste

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Definitions for Waste

noun
any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
Synonyms
waste material waste matter waste product
Examples
  1. they collect the waste once a week
  2. much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers
noun
useless or profitless activity
Synonyms
wastefulness dissipation
Examples
  1. using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
  2. if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste
  3. mindless dissipation of natural resources
noun
the trait of wasting resources
Synonyms
thriftlessness wastefulness
Examples
  1. a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
  2. the wastefulness of missed opportunities
noun
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
Synonyms
barren wasteland
Examples
  1. the barrens of central Africa
  2. the trackless wastes of the desert
noun
(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
Synonyms
permissive waste
verb
spend thoughtlessly
Synonyms
blow squander
Examples
  1. throw away
  2. He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
  3. You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
verb
use inefficiently or inappropriately
Examples
  1. waste heat
  2. waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
verb
get rid of
Examples
  1. We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
verb
run off as waste
Synonyms
run off
Examples
  1. The water wastes back into the ocean
verb
get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
Synonyms
neutralize neutralise liquidate knock off do in
Examples
  1. The mafia liquidated the informer
  2. the double agent was neutralized
verb
spend extravagantly
Synonyms
consume squander ware
Examples
  1. waste not, want not
verb
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
Synonyms
pine away languish
Examples
  1. After her husband died, she just pined away
verb
cause to grow thin or weak
Synonyms
emaciate macerate
Examples
  1. The treatment emaciated him
verb
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Synonyms
lay waste to devastate desolate ravage scourge
Examples
  1. The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
verb
become physically weaker
Synonyms
rot
Examples
  1. Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
adjective
located in a dismal or remote area
Synonyms
godforsaken wild
Examples
  1. desolate
  2. a desert island
  3. a godforsaken wilderness crossroads
  4. a wild stretch of land
  5. waste places

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