waste /wāst/

1. Rejected, superfluous
2. Uncultivated, and at most sparsely inhabited
3. Desolate
4. Lying unused
5. Unproductive
6. Devastated, ruinous (obsolete)
7. In a devastated condition, as in lay waste
8. Empty, unoccupied
9. Useless, vain (obsolete)

1. To spend, use or occupy unprofitably
2. To use, consume or spend too lavishly
3. To use or bestow where due appreciation is lacking (often in passive)
4. To fail to take advantage of
5. To treat as waste material
6. To injure (an estate or property) (law; obsolete)
7. To devastate
8. To consume, wear out or impair gradually
9. To cause to decline, shrink physically, to enfeeble
10. To put an end to, kill (obsolete or slang)
11. To impoverish (obsolete)
12. To expend, spend, consume or pass (obsolete)

1. To be diminished, used up or impaired by degrees
2. To lose strength or flesh or weight (often waste away)
3. (of time) to be spent (obsolete)
4. To be used to no, or little, purpose or effect
5. To be guilty of waste

1. The act or process of wasting
2. Superfluous, refuse or rejected material
3. Too lavish, or useless, expenditure, or an example of it
4. Squandering
5. Consumption or expenditure (obsolete)
6. A profusion (archaic)
7. A waste pipe
8. Gradual decay
9. Destruction
10. Loss
11. Injury done to an estate or property by the tenant (law; obsolete)
12. An uncultivated, unproductive or devastated region
13. A vast expanse, as of ocean or air
14. The darkness of midnight (Shakespeare, Hamlet I.2.198, quartos 2, 3, 4; others have ‘vast’)
15. A disused working
16. (in pl) ravages (obsolete)

wastˈable adjective

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

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