waste
verb
[ weɪst ]
• use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.
• "we can't afford to waste electricity"
Similar:
squander,
fritter away,
misspend,
misuse,
spend recklessly,
throw away,
lavish,
be wasteful with,
dissipate,
spend like water,
throw around like confetti,
go through,
run through,
exhaust,
drain,
deplete,
burn up,
use up,
consume,
blow,
splurge,
• (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated.
• "she was visibly wasting away"
Similar:
grow weak,
wither,
atrophy,
become emaciated,
shrivel up,
shrink,
decay,
decline,
wilt,
fade,
flag,
deteriorate,
degenerate,
rot,
moulder,
languish,
be abandoned,
be neglected,
be forgotten,
be disregarded,
• devastate or ruin (a place).
• "he seized their cattle and wasted their country"
• (of time) pass away.
• "the years were wasting"
waste
adjective
• (of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process.
• "ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly"
Similar:
unwanted,
excess,
superfluous,
left over,
scrap,
extra,
unused,
useless,
worthless,
unproductive,
unusable,
unprofitable,
• (of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on.
• "a patch of waste ground"
Similar:
uncultivated,
barren,
desert,
unproductive,
infertile,
unfruitful,
arid,
bare,
desolate,
solitary,
lonely,
empty,
void,
uninhabited,
unpopulated,
wild,
waste
noun
• an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.
• "it's a waste of time trying to argue with him"
Similar:
squandering,
dissipation,
frittering away,
misspending,
misuse,
misapplication,
misemployment,
abuse,
prodigality,
extravagance,
wastefulness,
lavishness,
unthriftiness,
• unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products.
• "nuclear waste"
Similar:
refuse,
litter,
debris,
dross,
junk,
detritus,
scrap,
dregs,
leavings,
remains,
scraps,
offscourings,
sewage,
effluent,
effluvium,
rubbish,
garbage,
trash,
• a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land.
• "the icy wastes of the Antarctic"
• damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e ) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.
