waste

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waste
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Meanings
verb
  • use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.
    E.g. we can't afford to waste electricity
  • (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated.
    E.g. she was visibly wasting away
  • devastate or ruin (a place).
    E.g. he seized their cattle and wasted their country
  • (of time) pass away.
    E.g. the years were wasting
adjective
  • (of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process.
    E.g. ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly
  • (of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on.
    E.g. a patch of waste ground
noun
  • an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.
    E.g. it's a waste of time trying to argue with him
  • unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products.
    E.g. nuclear waste
  • a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land.
    E.g. the icy wastes of the Antarctic
  • damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.

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