waste

Meanings

• 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"
• useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
  • "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"
• the trait of wasting resources
  • "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"
  • "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
  • "the trackless wastes of the desert"
• (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
• spend thoughtlessly; throw away
  • "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"
• use inefficiently or inappropriately
  • "waste heat"
  • "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
• get rid of
  • "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
• run off as waste
  • "The water wastes back into the ocean"
• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
• spend extravagantly
  • "waste not, want not"
• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
• cause to grow thin or weak
• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  • "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
• become physically weaker
• located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
  • "waste places"

Synonyms

barren, blow, consume, desolate, devastate, dissipation, do in, emaciate, godforsaken, knock off, languish, lay waste to, liquidate, macerate, neutralise, neutralize, permissive waste, pine away, ravage, rot, run off, scourge, squander, thriftlessness, ware, waste material, waste matter, waste product, wastefulness, wasteland, wild