waste

Signification (Anglais)

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.

gaspiller

gaspillage

se perdre

consacrer à

dépenser pour

s’atrophier

dévouer à

dépenses inconsidérées

efflanquer

jeter de l’eau

répandre un liquide

faire mal à

peu économique

panier-percé

wasteland

faire l’école buissonnière

waste matter

lay waste to

be used up

waste material

bring to naught

interfere with

be wasteful

defective goods

squandering dissipation

rase

rid of

run out of

trifle away

well out

yield

be careless

be consumed

be finished

be wasted

blank out

chad

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fall in ruins

fress

give over

handle roughly

let pass

lose flesh

make a mess of

outspent

reduce weight

suffer loss

throw to the dogs

unploughed

wanton away

waste time

render futile

food offering

throw away as useless

poor economy

dry leaves

lavish spending

bring to nought

treat shabbily

treat frivolously

treat without respect

throw down the drain

fatigue

throw around

dry soil

be extravagant with

lose in vain

simply waste

spend foolishly

abundancy

wastrie

wastry

spend needlessly

faulty production

rejected material

be expended

wear out quickly

cast-offthing

squander exceptional

ravaged completely

profligateness

ne’er do well

mill cull

leftover bits and pieces

wanton profusion

being wasteful

derelict land

extirpate

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/weɪst/

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.