waste
Meaning of waste
verb
- use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.
we can't afford to waste electricity
I don't use the car, so why should I waste precious money on it?
- (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated.
she was visibly wasting away
- devastate or ruin (a place).
he seized their cattle and wasted their country
- (of time) pass away.
the years were wasting
- (of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process.
ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly
plants produce oxygen as a waste product
- (of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on.
a patch of waste ground
- an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.
it's a waste of time trying to argue with him
they had learned to avoid waste
- unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products.
nuclear waste
hazardous industrial wastes
- a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land.
the icy wastes of the Antarctic
- damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.
Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e ) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.
Information about waste
- The plural form of waste is: wastes.
- Languages in which waste is used:
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Hyphenation of waste
waste
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- waste is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
waste synonyms
Meaning desert:
Meaning wastefulness:
Meaning thriftlessness:
Meaning barren:
Meaning blow:
Meaning neutralize:
Meaning consume:
Meaning pine away:
Meaning emaciate:
Meaning lay waste to:
devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge
Meaning rot:
Meaning spend (one's time or money) foolishly, wrongly, or wastefully:
Meaning use (something) in the wrong way or for the wrong purpose:
Meaning bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities on:
Meaning waste or fritter away (money, energy, or resources):
Meaning use up (resources or reserves) completely:
Meaning cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty or dry:
Meaning use up the supply or resources of:
Meaning spend (money) freely or extravagantly:
Meaning (of a plant) become dry and shrivelled:
Meaning (of body tissue or an organ) waste away, especially as a result of the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution:
Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:
Meaning (of organic matter) rot or decompose through the action of bacteria and fungi:
Meaning (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease:
Meaning (of a plant, leaf, or flower) become limp through heat, loss of water, or disease; droop:
Meaning gradually grow faint and disappear:
Meaning mark (an item) for attention or treatment in a specified way:
Meaning become progressively worse:
Meaning decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally:
Meaning slowly decay or disintegrate, especially because of neglect:
Meaning not or no longer desired:
Meaning exceeding a prescribed or desirable amount:
Meaning unnecessary, especially through being more than enough:
Meaning a small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used:
Meaning added to an existing or usual amount or number; additional:
Meaning not being, or never having been, used:
Meaning not fulfilling or not expected to achieve the intended purpose or desired outcome:
Meaning having no real value or use:
Meaning not producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities:
Meaning not fit to be used:
Meaning (of a business or activity) not yielding profit or financial gain:
Meaning (of land) not used for growing crops:
Meaning (of a person, animal, or plant) unable to reproduce itself; unable to have young:
Meaning not producing good or helpful results; unproductive:
Meaning (of land or a climate) having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation:
Meaning (of a person or part of the body) not clothed or covered:
Meaning done or existing alone:
Meaning sad because one has no friends or company:
Meaning containing nothing; not filled or occupied:
Meaning not valid or legally binding:
Meaning (of a place) without inhabitants:
Meaning (of a place) having no inhabitants:
Meaning waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner:
Meaning the improper use of something:
Meaning lack of restraint in spending money or using resources:
Meaning indicate or show that one is not willing to do something:
Meaning rubbish such as paper, cans, and bottles left lying in an open or public place:
Meaning scattered pieces of rubbish or remains:
Meaning something regarded as worthless; rubbish:
Meaning old or discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value:
Meaning waste or debris of any kind:
Meaning the remnants of a liquid left in a container, together with any sediment:
Meaning things that have been left as worthless:
Meaning the parts left over after other parts have been removed, used, or destroyed:
Meaning any waste articles or discarded material:
Meaning rubbish or dregs:
Meaning waste water and excrement conveyed in sewers:
Meaning liquid waste or sewage discharged into a river or the sea:
Meaning an unpleasant or harmful odour or discharge:
Meaning waste material; refuse or litter:
Meaning rubbish or waste, especially domestic refuse:
Meaning waste material; refuse:
Meaning an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region:
Meaning the state of containing nothing:
Meaning very great extent or size; immensity:
Meaning a natural state or uncultivated or uninhabited region:
waste antonyms
Meaning protect (something, especially something of environmental or cultural importance) from harm or destruction:
Meaning (of a living organism) grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly congenial environment:
Meaning (of a child, animal, or plant) grow or develop well or vigorously:
Meaning able to be used for a practical purpose or in several ways:
Meaning refined and well educated:
Translation of waste
- Spanish: basura, chatarra, deshecho, derrochar, despilfarrar, despilfarro, destruir, devastar, arruinar
- German: Abfall, Müll, Mist, Kehricht, verschwenden, Verschwendung, verheeren, verwüsten, veröden, devastieren
- French: déchet, ordure, gaspiller, gaspillage, gâchis, détruire, dévaster, ruiner, ravager
- Italian: rifiuto, spazzatura, immondizia, sprecare, spreco, distruggere, devastare, rovinare
- Portuguese: lixo, desperdiçar, desperdício
Anagrams of waste
awest, etwas, sweat, tawse, Tewas, twaes, wetas
Words that rhyme with waste
baste, bebaste, bumbaste, embaste, lambaste, unbaste, Epicaste, Jocaste, Polycaste, anticaste, caste, chichicaste, conacaste, intercaste, noncaste, outcaste, subcaste, uncaste, Andaste, cineaste, heaste, defaste, chaste, haste, overhaste, posthaste, prohaste, unchaste, unhaste, plaste, unlaste, agelaste, namaste, pleonaste, snaste, bepaste, butterpaste, fishpaste, impaste, paste, prepaste, repaste, semipaste, softpaste, toothpaste, unpaste, Eraste, agraste, contraste, graste
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