waste

Definitions of waste in various dictionaries:

noun - any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted

noun - useless or profitless activity

noun - the trait of wasting resources

noun - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

noun - (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

verb - spend thoughtlessly

verb - use inefficiently or inappropriately

verb - get rid of

verb - run off as waste

verb - get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

verb - spend extravagantly

verb - lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

verb - cause to grow thin or weak

verb - cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

verb - become physically weaker

adj - located in a dismal or remote area

To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.

To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble: Disease wasted his body.

To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose: waste an opportunity.

To destroy completely.

To kill; murder.

To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor; become weak or enfeebled: wasting away from an illness.

To pass without being put to use: Time is wasting.

The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted: a waste of talent; gone to waste.

A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.

A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.

A useless or worthless byproduct, as from a manufacturing process.

Something, such as steam, that escapes without being used.

Garbage; trash.

The undigested residue of food eliminated from the body; excrement.

Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless: waste trimmings.

Used as a conveyance or container for refuse: a waste bin.

The central meaning shared by these verb s is “to spend or expend without restraint and often to no avail”: wasted her inheritance; blew a fortune on a shopping spree; time and money consumed in litigation; dissipating their energies in pointless argument; frittering away her entire allowance; squandered his literary talent on writing commercials.

verb - to use thoughtlessly

WASTE - Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of ...