waste

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
2. Excrement or urine.
3. A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
4. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
5. A large tract of uncultivated land.
6. The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
7. A vast expanse of water.
8. A disused mine or part of one.
9. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
10. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
11. Gradual loss or decay.
12. A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
13. Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
14. A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
15. Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.

Adj

Useless and contemptible.

Adj

1. Uncultivated, uninhabited.
2. Barren; desert; empty.
3. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
4. Superfluous; needless.
5. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
6. Unfortunate; disappointing.

Verb

1. To devastate; to destroy.
2. To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
3. (slang) To kill; to murder.
4. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
5. To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
6. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
7. To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/weɪst/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

From Middle English wast, waste (“a waste”, noun), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast, waste (“a waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“a waste”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstaz, *wōstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”).
Displaced native Old English essian and strȳndan. Largely overtook Old English forspillan and weste.

Προτάσεις

They certainly did not waste it either .

Σίγουρα δεν το σπαταλούσαν ούτε.

Fly by night and you waste little time .

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