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Waste
weɪst
- use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose
"we can't afford to waste electricity"
squander fritter away misspend misuse spend recklessly throw away lavish be wasteful with dissipate spend like water throw around like confetti- expend on an unappreciative recipient
"her small talk was wasted on this guest"
- fail to make full or good use of
"we're wasted in this job"
- deliberately dispose of (surplus stock)
"20 per cent of stock will need to be wasted"
- (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated
"she was visibly wasting away"
- make progressively weaker and more emaciated
"these symptoms wasted the patients very much"
- kill or severely injure (someone)
"I saw them waste the guy I worked for"
- 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"
- (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"
- the gradual loss or diminution of something
"he was pale and weak from waste of blood"
- unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products
"nuclear waste"
- 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