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Meaning of waste

1. (n) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"

2. (n) (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

3. (n) the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"

4. (n) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"

5. (n) any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"

6. (v) waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

7. (v) devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

8. (v) cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"

9. (v) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"

10. (v) spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

11. (v) use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"

12. (v) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"

13. (v) run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"

14. (v) get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"

15. (v) spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

16. (adj.sat.) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"

17. (adj.sat.) disposed of as useless; "waste paper"

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