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Waste

noun

1.

Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted. Synonyms: waste material, waste matter, waste product. "Much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"

2.

Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly. Synonyms: dissipation, wastefulness. "Mindless dissipation of natural resources"

3.

The trait of wasting resources. Synonyms: thriftlessness, wastefulness. "The wastefulness of missed opportunities"

4.

An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation. Synonyms: barren, wasteland. "The trackless wastes of the desert"

5.

(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect. Synonym: permissive waste.

verb

(past & past part. wasted; pres. part. wasting)

1.

Spend thoughtlessly; throw away. Synonyms: blow, squander. "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

2.

Use inefficiently or inappropriately. "Waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"

3.

Get rid of.

4.

Run off as waste. Synonym: run off.

5.

Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing. Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize. "The double agent was neutralized"

6.

Spend extravagantly. Synonyms: consume, squander, ware.

7.

Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief. Synonyms: languish, pine away.

8.

Cause to grow thin or weak. Synonyms: emaciate, macerate.

9.

Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly. Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge.

10.

Become physically weaker. Synonym: rot.

adjective

1.

Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate. Synonyms: godforsaken, wild. "A godforsaken wilderness crossroads" , "A wild stretch of land" , "Waste places"

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"Waste" Quotes from Famous Books

... reason), ought to crack in the direction of the scratch. If a big crack forms and does not run straight, but tends to turn longitudinally, it is a sign that the glass is ill annealed, and nothing can be done with it. If such glass be hit upon in the course of blow-pipe work, it is inadvisable to waste time upon it; the best plan is to reject it at once, and save it for some experiment where it will not ...

— On Laboratory Arts • Richard Threlfall

... restless activity of the Phoenicians has often helped to confuse our aesthetic knowledge, and has caused the waste of much speculation in ascertaining how certain objects of luxury, belonging to distant civilizations, can possibly have arrived at the ...

— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... fragments, pitching them contemptuously into the waste-paper basket; but, nevertheless, they were like so many gnats buzzing about an open wound, ...

— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler

... same time no thinking man can fail to be struck with the great waste of the means of enjoyment in a society in which such gigantic sums are spent in mere conventional ostentation which gives little or no pleasure; in which the best London houses are those which are ...

— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... and villas filling this and neighboring valleys, with the fairest of all, a city whose beauty of situation, whose wealth of resource should become known throughout the world, rising from the most arid site of the burning desert before him, hard by the barren salt shores of the watery waste. There in the very heart of the parched wilderness should stand the House of the Lord, with other temples in valleys beyond the horizon of ...

— The Story of "Mormonism" • James E. Talmage

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