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waste /wāst/ adjective- Rejected, superfluous
- Uncultivated, and at most sparsely inhabited
- Desolate
- Lying unused
- Unproductive
- Devastated, ruinous (obsolete)
- In a devastated condition, as in lay waste
- Empty, unoccupied
- Useless, vain (obsolete)
transitive verb- To spend, use or occupy unprofitably
- To use, consume or spend too lavishly
- To use or bestow where due appreciation is lacking (often in passive)
- To fail to take advantage of
- To treat as waste material
- To injure (an estate or property) (law; obsolete)
- To devastate
- To consume, wear out or impair gradually
- To cause to decline, shrink physically, to enfeeble
- To put an end to, kill (obsolete or slang)
- To impoverish (obsolete)
- To expend, spend, consume or pass (obsolete)
intransitive verb- To be diminished, used up or impaired by degrees
- To lose strength or flesh or weight (often waste away)
- (of time) to be spent (obsolete)
- To be used to no, or little, purpose or effect
- To be guilty of waste
noun- The act or process of wasting
- Superfluous, refuse or rejected material
- Too lavish, or useless, expenditure, or an example of it
- Squandering
- Consumption or expenditure (obsolete)
- A profusion (archaic)
- A waste pipe
- Gradual decay
- Destruction
- Loss
- Injury done to an estate or property by the tenant (law; obsolete)
- An uncultivated, unproductive or devastated region
- A vast expanse, as of ocean or air
- The darkness of midnight (Shakespeare, Hamlet I.2.198, quartos 2, 3, 4; others have ‘vast’)
- A disused working
- (in pl) ravages (obsolete)
ORIGIN: OFr wast (variant of guast), from L vāstus waste wastˈable adjective wāstˈage noun - Loss by use or natural decay, etc
- Useless or unprofitable spending
- Loss, or amount of loss, through this
- A devastated or ruined place (Scot)
- Waste ground (Scot)
wāstˈed adjective - Unexploited or squandered
- Exhausted, worn-out
- Shrunken, emaciated
- Extremely drunk or high on drugs (slang; esp US)
wasteˈful adjective - Causing waste
- Extravagant, over-lavish
- Causing devastation, consuming, destructive (obsolete or rare)
- Causing wasting of the body (rare)
- Lavish (obsolete)
- Uninhabited, unfrequented, desolate (poetic)
- Vain, profitless (obsolete)
wasteˈfully adverb wasteˈfulness noun wasteˈness noun - The state of being waste
- A waste place (obsolete)
- Devastation (Bible)
wastˈer noun - Someone who or something that wastes
- A spendthrift
- A good-for-nothing (informal)
- Used with uncertain significance to denote a class of thief (historical)
- An inferior article, esp one spoilt in the making
- An animal that is not thriving, or that is not suitable for breeding purposes
transitive verb (Scot)To use, spend extravagantly wāstˈerful adjective (Scot) Extravagant wāstˈerfully adverb wāstˈerfulness noun wasteˈrife or wastˈrife /-rif or -rīf/ adjective (Scot) Wasteful noun Wastefulness wastˈery or wastˈry noun (Scot) Prodigality adjective Improvident wāstˈing noun adjective - Undergoing waste
- Destroying, devastating
- (of an illness, etc) causing emaciation, destructive of body tissues, enfeebling
wāstˈrel noun - A profligate, ne'er-do-well, idler
- A waif (old)
- Refuse (obsolete)
adjective- Spendthrift
- (of an animal) feeble
- Waste, refuse (obsolete)
- 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 - A desolate, barren area
- A culturally or intellectually empty place or time
waste paper noun - Used paper no longer required for its original purpose
- 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 |