waste

Definitions

1. 1adjective

   Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

2. 2adjective

   Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

3. 3adjective

   Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

4. 4adjective

   To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

5. 5adjective

   To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

6. 6adjective

   To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

7. 7adjective

   To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

8. 8intransitive verb

   To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.

9. 9intransitive verb

   To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

10. 10verb

    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.

11. 11verb

    That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.

12. 12verb

    That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

13. 13verb

    Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.

14. 14verb

    Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

15. 15noun

    useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly

    "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"

    "mindless dissipation of natural resources"

    Synonyms

    dissipationwastefulness
16. 16noun

    (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

17. 17noun

    the trait of wasting resources

    "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"

    "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"

    Synonyms

    thriftlessnesswastefulness
18. 18noun

    an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

    "the barrens of central Africa"

    "the trackless wastes of the desert"

    Synonyms

    barrenwasteland
19. 19noun

    any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted

    "they collect the waste once a week"

    "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"

20. 20verb

    become physically weaker

    "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

    Synonyms

    rot
21. 21verb

    cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

    "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

    Synonyms

    desolatedevastateravagescourge
22. 22verb

    cause to grow thin or weak

    "The treatment emaciated him"

    Synonyms

    emaciatemacerate
23. 23verb

    lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

    "After her husband died, she just pined away"

    Synonyms

    languish
24. 24verb

    spend extravagantly

    "waste not, want not"

    Synonyms

    consumesquanderware
25. 25verb

    use inefficiently or inappropriately

    "waste heat"

    "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"

26. 26verb

    get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

    "The mafia liquidated the informer"

    "the double agent was neutralized"

    Synonyms

    liquidateneutraliseneutralize
27. 27verb

    run off as waste

    "The water wastes back into the ocean"

28. 28verb

    get rid of

    "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"

29. 29verb

    spend thoughtlessly; throw away

    "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"

    "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

    Synonyms

    blowsquander
30. 30adjective

    located in a dismal or remote area; desolate

    "a desert island"

    "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"

    Synonyms

    godforsakenwild