Definition of Waste

Noun

• (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
  - permissive waste
• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
  "the barrens of central Africa"
  "the trackless wastes of the desert"
  barren wasteland
• the trait of wasting resources
  "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"
  "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
  thriftlessness wastefulness
• 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"
  wastefulness dissipation
• 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"
  - waste material - waste matter - waste product

Verb

• become physically weaker
  "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
  rot
• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
  - lay waste to devastate desolate ravage scourge
• cause to grow thin or weak
  "The treatment emaciated him"
  emaciate macerate
• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
  "After her husband died, she just pined away"
  - pine away languish
• spend extravagantly
  "waste not, want not"
  consume squander ware
• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
  "The mafia liquidated the informer"
  "the double agent was neutralized"
  neutralize neutralise liquidate - knock off - do in
• run off as waste
  "The water wastes back into the ocean"
  - run off
• get rid of
  "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
  
• use inefficiently or inappropriately
  "waste heat"
  "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
  
• spend thoughtlessly
  throw away
  "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"
  "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
  blow squander

Adjective

• located in a dismal or remote area
  desolate
  "a desert island"
  "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"
  "a wild stretch of land"
  "waste places"
  godforsaken wild

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Unscramble waste

68 unscramble word found using the letters waste.

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