Definitions for waste

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waste waste

Spelling: [weyst]

IPA: /weɪst/

Waste is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in waste (aestw).

Definitions for waste

noun

1. useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting:
2. neglect, instead of use:
3. gradual destruction, impairment, or decay:
4. devastation or ruin, as from war or fire.
5. a region or place devastated or ruined:
6. anything unused, unproductive, or not properly utilized.
7. an uncultivated tract of land.
8. a wild region or tract of land; desolate country, desert, or the like.
9. an empty, desolate, or dreary tract or extent:
10. anything left over or superfluous, as excess material or by-products, not of use for the work in hand:
11. remnants, as from the working of cotton, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil, etc.
12. Physical Geography. material derived by mechanical and chemical disintegration of rock, as the detritus transported by streams, rivers, etc.
13. garbage; refuse.
14. wastes, excrement.

Idioms

1. go to waste, to fail to be used or consumed; be wasted:
2. lay waste, to devastate; destroy; ruin:

adjective

1. not used or in use:
2. (of land, regions, etc.) wild, desolate, barren, or uninhabited; desert.
3. (of regions, towns, etc.) in a state of desolation and ruin, as from devastation or decay.
4. left over or superfluous:
5. having served or fulfilled a purpose; no longer of use.
6. rejected as useless or worthless; refuse:
7. Physiology. pertaining to material unused by or unusable to the organism.
8. designed or used to receive, hold, or carry away excess, superfluous, used, or useless material (often in combination):
9. Obsolete. excessive; needless.

verb (used with object)

1. to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander:
2. to fail or neglect to use:
3. to destroy or consume gradually; wear away:
4. to wear down or reduce in bodily substance, health, or strength; emaciate; enfeeble:
5. to destroy, devastate, or ruin:
6. Slang. to kill or murder.

verb (used without object)

1. to be consumed, spent, or employed uselessly or without giving full value or being fully utilized or appreciated.
2. to become gradually consumed, used up, or worn away:
3. to become physically worn; lose flesh or strength; become emaciated or enfeebled.
4. to diminish gradually; dwindle, as wealth, power, etc.:
5. to pass gradually, as time.

Origin of waste

1150-1200; 1960-65 for def 6; (adj.) Middle English Old North French wast (Old French g(u)ast) Latin vāstus desolate; (v.) Middle English Old North French waster (Old French g(u)aster) Latin

Examples for waste

I disdain to spoil my eyes or waste my time by newspaper-reading.

They waste the time one should spend in making them come true.

But fishing for rationale in harassment is almost always a waste of time.

It is wrong to waste the precious gift of time, on acrimony and division.

A land farm is the term used for a commercial operation where waste from oil and gas extraction is spread on top of the ground.

waste Management, the large disposal company, has turned its landfills into a fleet of power producers.

Fellow citizens, we must not waste the precious gift of this time.

Let us waste no time in discussions about abstract law and right.

And as for ShiaChat, “as a younger person I used to waste some of my time arguing with people” there.

When twelve people are killed by violence, whoever they are, for whatever reason, that is a tragedy and a waste.