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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024waste /weɪst/USA pronunciation v., wast•ed, wast•ing, n., adj. v. - to use up or spend to no profit;
squander:[~ + object]wasting money; wasting time. - to fail to use:[~ + object]Never waste an opportunity.
- to (cause to) become feeble, weak, or thin: [~ + object]He was wasted by disease.[no object]Every day the patient seemed to waste away.
- Slang Terms[~ + object]to murder.
n. - an act or instance of wasting: [countable; usually singular]a waste of money.[uncountable]to cut down on waste.
- a devastated area, or an area that is unsuitable or considered unsuitable for living, as a desert:[countable]the frozen wastes of the tundra.
- something left over, esp. after some process has been performed and something more valuable removed: [countable]factory wastes.[uncountable]the disposal of radioactive waste.
- garbage;
refuse:[uncountable]household waste. - Physiology wastes, [plural] excrement.
adj. [before a noun] - wild;
desolate;
not useful:waste land. - left over;
extra and not necessary:waste materials; waste paper. - Physiologyunused by or unusable to a living thing.
- designed to receive or carry away waste.
Idioms- Idioms go to waste, to be wasted, rather than used:This food will go to waste if you don't eat it.
- Idioms lay waste to, [~ + object] to devastate;
destroy.
waste is a verb and a noun, wasteful is an adjective:He wasted too much time trying to fix the radio. It was a waste of time. He is wasteful when it comes to using paper. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024waste (wāst),USA pronunciation v., wast•ed, wast•ing, n., adj. v.t. - to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return;
use to no avail or profit;
squander:to waste money; to waste words. - to fail or neglect to use:to waste an opportunity.
- to destroy or consume gradually;
wear away:The waves waste the rock of the shore. - to wear down or reduce in bodily substance, health, or strength;
emaciate;
enfeeble:to be wasted by disease or hunger. - to destroy, devastate, or ruin:a country wasted by a long and futile war.
- Slang Termsto kill or murder.
v.i. - to be consumed, spent, or employed uselessly or without giving full value or being fully utilized or appreciated.
- to become gradually consumed, used up, or worn away:A candle wastes in burning.
- to become physically worn;
lose flesh or strength;
become emaciated or enfeebled. - to diminish gradually;
dwindle, as wealth, power, etc.:The might of England is wasting. - to pass gradually, as time.
n. - useless consumption or expenditure;
use without adequate return;
an act or instance of wasting:The project was a waste of material, money, time, and energy. - neglect, instead of use:waste of opportunity.
- gradual destruction, impairment, or decay:the waste and repair of bodily tissue.
- devastation or ruin, as from war or fire.
- a region or place devastated or ruined:The forest fire left a blackened waste.
- anything unused, unproductive, or not properly utilized.
- an uncultivated tract of land.
- a wild region or tract of land;
desolate country, desert, or the like. - an empty, desolate, or dreary tract or extent:a waste of snow.
- anything left over or superfluous, as excess material or by-products, not of use for the work in hand:a fortune made in salvaging factory wastes.
- remnants, as from the working of cotton, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil, etc.
- Geography[Phys. Geog.]material derived by mechanical and chemical disintegration of rock, as the detritus transported by streams, rivers, etc.
- garbage;
refuse. - Physiology wastes, excrement.
- go to waste, to fail to be used or consumed;
be wasted:She hates to see good food go to waste. - lay waste, to devastate;
destroy;
ruin:Forest fires lay waste thousands of acres yearly.
adj. - not used or in use:waste energy; waste talents.
- (of land, regions, etc.) wild, desolate, barren, or uninhabited;
desert. - (of regions, towns, etc.) in a state of desolation and ruin, as from devastation or decay.
- left over or superfluous:to utilize waste products of manufacture.
- having served or fulfilled a purpose;
no longer of use. - rejected as useless or worthless;
refuse:to salvage waste products. - Physiologypertaining to material unused by or unusable to the organism.
- designed or used to receive, hold, or carry away excess, superfluous, used, or useless material (often in combination):a waste pipe; waste container.
- [Obs.]excessive;
needless.
- Latin vāstum, noun, nominal use of neuter of vāstus, partly derivative of waster; Old North French w-, Old French gu- by influence of cognate with Frankish *wōsti desolate (cognate with Old High German wuosti)
- Old North French wast(e) (Old French g(u)aste), partly
- Latin vāstāre, derivative of vāstus; (noun, nominal) Middle English
- Old North French waster (Old French g(u)aster)
- Latin vāstus desolate; (verb, verbal) Middle English
- Old North French wast (Old French g(u)ast)
- 1150–1200; 1960–65 for def. 6; (adjective, adjectival) Middle English
waste′less, adj.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged misspend, dissipate, fritter away, expend.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged erode.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged ravage, pillage, plunder, sack, spoil, despoil.
- 10.See corresponding entry in Unabridged decline, perish, wane, decay.
- 12.See corresponding entry in Unabridged dissipation.
- 14.See corresponding entry in Unabridged diminution, decline, emaciation, consumption.
- 15.See corresponding entry in Unabridged spoliation, desolation.
- 19.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See desert 1.
- 24.See corresponding entry in Unabridged rubbish, trash.
- 27.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See ravage.
- 30.See corresponding entry in Unabridged ruined, ghostly, destroyed.
- 31.See corresponding entry in Unabridged unused, useless, extra.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged save.
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