waste

Meaning

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.

Concepts

waste

squander

garbage

rubbish

loss

trash

refuse

destroy

spend

spoil

dissipate

squandering

desert

damage

consume

ruin

lose

scrap

extravagance

wastefulness

barren

debris

devastate

ravage

use up

wasteland

decay

kill

desolate

lavish

dissipation

spoilage

junk

wastage

leftovers

litter

diminish

wilderness

misuse

injury

dregs

destruction

wild

do in

knock off

useless

wasteful

wasting

eliminate

waste matter

cost

misspend

blow

exhaust

prodigality

emaciate

liquidate

worthless

residue

bare

deserted

dwindle

dross

waste product

throw away

splurge

rot

lay waste to

scourge

macerate

languish

pine away

neutralise

neutralize

thriftlessness

sewage

effluent

clippings

cuttings

parings

pour

pour out

spill

murder

dreary

gaunt

stark

detritus

chase away

disperse

fragments

abolish

fritter away

decrease

weaken

bring to naught

consumption

exhaustion

waster

droppings

dung

be used up

bagasse

badlands

pine

uninhabited

ware

godforsaken

permissive waste

run off

waste material

unnecessary

needless

lay waste

squandering dissipation

defective goods

rejects

injure

mar

desolation

droop

wilt

wither

profligate

vandalize

stuff

prodigal

wear

wear down

wear and tear

reject

extravagant

uneconomic

windfall

expend

wear out

be wasteful

in vain

decline

erase

fritter

dirt

fade

wipe away

bump off

trifle

manure

impair

delay

interfere with

slay

rubble

annul

do away with

spend foolishly

prairie

render futile

chad

food offering

yield

smash

throw away as useless

devote

poor economy

defamation

lavish spending

make a mess of

sacrifice

bring to nought

rag

handle roughly

treat frivolously

treat shabbily

treat without respect

throw down the drain

lose in vain

simply waste

remains

corpse

be extravagant with

be finished

run out of

quid

devour

excretion

feces

slop

swill

debilitate

enervate

exhausted

wastrie

wastry

spending

spend needlessly

soil

unploughed

dry soil

fall in ruins

unpeopled

devastated

play away

pollutants

prodigalize

rejected

slack

defective

beat up

lose weight

reduce weight

pass away

faulty production

rejected material

let pass

leavings

emaciation

annihilation

dissolution

void

be consumed

be expended

wear out quickly

flag

lose flesh

wizen

wrinkle

cast-off

cast-offthing

squander exceptional

be wasted

ravaged completely

suffer loss

die

abundancy

throw

throw out

tip

dry leaves

spoils

deteriorate

shatter

custom

tradition

use

miss

bootless

drossy

dud

has-been

ne’er do well

otiose

trashy

bleak

derelict

forlorn

lonesome

improvident

spendthrift

thriftless

unstinted

wastrel

lavishness

arrest

balk

belay

cease

cheese

detain

give over

halt

hang on

pause

quit

stall

stay

stop

trig

corrupt

vitiate

attrition

corruption

spoiling

fallow

leftover bits and pieces

mill cull

offcut

revert

derelict land

outspent

wanton profusion

cesspool

superfluous

scatter

pillage

expenditure

worn out

lower

pollute

harm

wear away

uncared-for

throw to the dogs

filth

splash about

throw around

recede

solitary

black out

destruct

eradicate

extinguish

knock out

obliterate

rase

sack

wipe out

zap

wolf

left

die back

shrink

shrivel

ablate

abrogate

blank out

breathe

call in

clear

close out

cross off

cross out

crush

cull

cut out

delete

draw away

drive out

edit

eject

excise

expunge

extirpate

harvest

hollow out

lift

lop

mark

obviate

preclude

pull

purge

remove

rid of

scratch out

strike

strike off

strike out

strip

take

take away

take out

wipe off

write off

stem

bull

codswallop

drool

hokum

schlock

sleaze

dispatch

hit

mow down

off

take off

profligacy

fool

piddle

trifle away

wanton

wanton away

drain

filter

flux

gutter

run out

stream

trickle

well out

misfortune

mishap

rape

night soil

excessive

surplus

mess

sediment

waste products

tuft

abandon

rub out

scum

pulp

lees

hold

declination

denial

refusal

rejection

hardscrabble

idling

languishing

unfruitful

being wasteful

offal

fatigue

inferior

be careless

dissipated

hold up

waste time

expenses

fee

famine

materials

unthrifty

residuum

profligateness

deplete

frazzle

fress

gluttonize

overfatigue

dilapidate

finish off

put to death

slaughter

annihilate

decimate

unfix

clear away

oust

terminate

disburse

write out

fool away

plunder

beat it

decamp

disappear

fade away

forfeit

go

go around

make off

perish

push off

scarper

slink

vanish

uncultivated

Pronounced as (IPA)

/weɪst/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

They certainly did not waste it either .

Fly by night and you waste little time .