wāstˈage noun

1. Loss by use or natural decay, etc
2. Useless or unprofitable spending
3. Loss, or amount of loss, through this
4. A devastated or ruined place (Scot)
5. Waste ground (Scot)

wāstˈed adjective

1. Unexploited or squandered
2. Exhausted, worn-out
3. Shrunken, emaciated
4. Extremely drunk or high on drugs (slang; esp US)

wasteˈful adjective

1. Causing waste
2. Extravagant, over-lavish
3. Causing devastation, consuming, destructive (obsolete or rare)
4. Causing wasting of the body (rare)
5. Lavish (obsolete)
6. Uninhabited, unfrequented, desolate (poetic)
7. Vain, profitless (obsolete)

wasteˈfully adverb

wasteˈfulness noun

wasteˈness noun

1. The state of being waste
2. A waste place (obsolete)
3. Devastation (Bible)

wastˈer noun

1. Someone who or something that wastes
2. A spendthrift
3. A good-for-nothing (informal)
4. Used with uncertain significance to denote a class of thief (historical)
5. An inferior article, esp one spoilt in the making
6. An animal that is not thriving, or that is not suitable for breeding purposes

To use, spend extravagantly

wāstˈerful adjective (Scot)

Extravagant

wāstˈerfully adverb

wāstˈerfulness noun

wasteˈrife or wastˈrife /-rif or -rīf/ adjective (Scot)

Wasteful

Wastefulness

wastˈery or wastˈry noun (Scot)

Prodigality

Improvident

wāstˈing noun adjective

1. Undergoing waste
2. Destroying, devastating
3. (of an illness, etc) causing emaciation, destructive of body tissues, enfeebling

wāstˈrel noun

1. A profligate, ne'er-do-well, idler
2. A waif (old)
3. Refuse (obsolete)

1. Spendthrift
2. (of an animal) feeble
3. Waste, refuse (obsolete)
4. Going to waste (obsolete)

waste basket (N American), waste bin, wastepaper basket or wastepaper bin noun

A basket or bin for holding discarded paper and other rubbish

waste book noun

A day book or journal, or a rougher record preliminary to it

waste disposal unit noun

A system fitted to a kitchen sink for grinding down food waste so that it can be disposed of down the plug hole

waste gate noun

A gate for discharging surplus water from a dam, etc

waste ground or (Can) wasteˈlot noun

A piece of land lying unused in a built-up area

wasteˈland noun

1. A desolate, barren area
2. A culturally or intellectually empty place or time

waste paper noun

1. Used paper no longer required for its original purpose
2. Paper rejected as spoiled

waste pipe noun

A pipe for carrying off waste or surplus water

waste product noun

Material produced in a process and discarded on the completion of that process

wasting asset noun

Any asset (esp a natural resource, such as a mine) whose value decreases with its depletion and which cannot be replaced or renewed

go to waste

To be wasted

grow to waste (obsolete)

(of a time) to come near an end

in waste (obsolete)

To no effect, in vain

lay waste

To devastate

run to waste

(orig of liquids) to be wasted or lost