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waste [ waste ]

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weɪst ]
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weɪst ]
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Verb

1. Use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.

Why waste all that money on TV ads?

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2. Expend on an unappreciative recipient.

her small talk was wasted on this guest

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3. Fail to make full or good use of.

we're wasted in this job

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4. Deliberately dispose of (surplus stock)

20% of stock will need to be wasted

5. (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated.

she was visibly wasting away

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6. Make progressively weaker and more emaciated.

these symptoms wasted the patients very much

7. Devastate or ruin (a place)

They proceed to unleash the monsters across the globe, who do what comes naturally, and start wasting cities.

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8. Kill or severely injure (someone)

I'd like to fight somebody with a black belt and waste them.

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9. (of time) pass away.

the years were wasting

Adjective

1. (of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process.

They can be made with simple materials such as waste paper.

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2. (of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on.

It grows in pastures, cultivated fields, and waste places.

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Noun

1. An act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.

The waste of energy can hit the environment hard.

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2. The gradual loss or diminution of something.

he was pale and weak from waste of blood

3. (also wastes) Unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products.

hazardous industrial wastes

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4. (usually wastes) A large area of barren, typically uninhabited land.

Her mouth and throat were as dry as the desert wastes.

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5. Damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.

If a mortgagee enters into possession he is liable to account for rent on the basis of wilful default; he must keep mortgage premises in repair; he is liable for waste.

Origin

1. Middle English from Old Northern French wast(e) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.

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