Waste Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words. | | 2. | to fail or neglect to use: to waste an opportunity. | | 3. | to destroy or consume gradually; wear away: The waves waste the rock of the shore. | | 4. | to wear down or reduce in bodily substance, health, or strength; emaciate; enfeeble: to be wasted by disease or hunger. | | 5. | to destroy, devastate, or ruin: a country wasted by a long and futile war. | | 6. | Slang. to kill or murder. | –verb (used without object) | 7. | to be consumed, spent, or employed uselessly or without giving full value or being fully utilized or appreciated. | | 8. | to become gradually consumed, used up, or worn away: A candle wastes in burning. | | 9. | to become physically worn; lose flesh or strength; become emaciated or enfeebled. | | 10. | to diminish gradually; dwindle, as wealth, power, etc.: The might of England is wasting. | | 11. | to pass gradually, as time. | –noun | 12. | useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting: The project was a waste of material, money, time, and energy. | | 13. | neglect, instead of use: waste of opportunity. | | 14. | gradual destruction, impairment, or decay: the waste and repair of bodily tissue. | | 15. | devastation or ruin, as from war or fire. | | 16. | a region or place devastated or ruined: The forest fire left a blackened waste. | | 17. | anything unused, unproductive, or not properly utilized. | | 18. | an uncultivated tract of land. | | 19. | a wild region or tract of land; desolate country, desert, or the like. | | 20. | an empty, desolate, or dreary tract or extent: a waste of snow. | | 21. | anything left over or superfluous, as excess material or by-products, not of use for the work in hand: a fortune made in salvaging factory wastes. | | 22. | remnants, as from the working of cotton, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil, etc. | | 23. | Physical Geography. material derived by mechanical and chemical disintegration of rock, as the detritus transported by streams, rivers, etc. | –adjective | 26. | not used or in use: waste energy; waste talents. | | 27. | (of land, regions, etc.) wild, desolate, barren, or uninhabited; desert. | | 28. | (of regions, towns, etc.) in a state of desolation and ruin, as from devastation or decay. | | 29. | left over or superfluous: to utilize waste products of manufacture. | | 30. | having served or fulfilled a purpose; no longer of use. | | 31. | rejected as useless or worthless; refuse: to salvage waste products. | | 32. | Physiology. pertaining to material unused by or unusable to the organism. | | 33. | designed or used to receive, hold, or carry away excess, superfluous, used, or useless material (often in combination): a waste pipe; waste container. | | 34. | Obsolete. excessive; needless. | —Idioms | 35. | go to waste, to fail to be used or consumed; be wasted: She hates to see good food go to waste. | | 36. | lay waste, to devastate; destroy; ruin: Forest fires lay waste thousands of acres yearly. | |
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