Definition of waste

adjective (a)

• Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. (adjective)

  source: webster1913

noun (n)

• any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted (noun.substance)

  Synonym: waste material, waste matter, waste product
  

  Example:
  They collect the waste once a week.
  Much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers.
  

  source: wordnet30
• useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly (noun.act)

  Synonym: dissipation, wastefulness
  

  Example:
  If the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste.
  

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• the trait of wasting resources (noun.attribute)

  Synonym: thriftlessness, wastefulness
  

  Example:
  A life characterized by thriftlessness and waste.
  The wastefulness of missed opportunities.
  

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• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation (noun.location)

  Synonym: barren, wasteland
  

  Example:
  The trackless wastes of the desert.
  

  source: wordnet30
• (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect (noun.act)

  Synonym: permissive waste
  

  source: wordnet30
• The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc. (noun)

  source: webster1913
• Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea. (noun)

  source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

• located in a dismal or remote area; desolate (adj.all)

  Synonym: godforsaken, wild
  

  Example:
  Waste places.
  

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verb (v)

• spend thoughtlessly; throw away (verb.possession)

  Synonym: blow, squander
  Antonym: conserve, economise, economize, husband
  

  Example:
  He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends.
  

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• use inefficiently or inappropriately (verb.consumption)

  Example:
  Waste heat.
  Waste a joke on an unappreciative audience.
  

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• get rid of (verb.possession)

  Synonym: cast, cast off, drop, escape from, shake, shake off, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off, throw off
  

  Example:
  We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer.
  

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• run off as waste (verb.motion)

  Synonym: run off
  

  Example:
  The water wastes back into the ocean.
  

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• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing (verb.contact)

  Synonym: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize
  

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• spend extravagantly (verb.consumption)

  Synonym: consume, squander, ware
  

  Example:
  Waste not, want not.
  

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• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief (verb.change)

  Synonym: languish, pine away
  

  source: wordnet30
• cause to grow thin or weak (verb.change)

  Synonym: emaciate, macerate
  

  source: wordnet30
• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly (verb.change)

  Synonym: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge
  

  Example:
  The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion.
  

  source: wordnet30
• become physically weaker (verb.body)

  Synonym: rot
  

  source: wordnet30
• To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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