waste

waste  (wst)

v. wast·ed, wast·ing, wastes

v.tr.

1. To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.

2. To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble: Disease wasted his body.

3. To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose: waste an opportunity.

4.

a. To destroy completely.

b. Slang To kill; murder.

v.intr.

1. To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor; become weak or enfeebled: wasting away from an illness.

2. To pass without being put to use: Time is wasting.

n.

1. The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted: a waste of talent; gone to waste.

2. A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.

3. A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.

4.

a. An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product.

b. Something, such as steam, that escapes without being used.

5. Garbage; trash.

6. The undigested residue of food eliminated from the body; excrement.

adj.

1. Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless: waste trimmings.

2. Used as a conveyance or container for refuse: a waste bin.

3. Excreted from the body: waste matter.

Idiom:

waste (one's) breath

To gain or accomplish nothing by speaking.

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[Middle English wasten, from Old North French waster, from Latin vstre, to make empty, from vstus, empty; see eu- in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: waste, blow¹, consume, dissipate, fritter¹, squander
These verbs mean to spend or expend without restraint and often to no avail: wasted my inheritance; blew a fortune at the casino; time and money that was consumed in litigation; dissipated their energies in pointless argument; frittering away her entire allowance; squandered his talent on writing jingles.

Antonym: save¹

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waste

Verb

[wasting, wasted]

1. to use up thoughtlessly, carelessly, or unsuccessfully

2. to fail to take advantage of: let's not waste an opportunity to see the children

3. be wasted on to be too good for; not be appreciated by: fine brandy is wasted on you

4. waste away to lose one's strength or health: wasting away from unrequited love

Noun

1. the act of wasting something or the state of being wasted: a waste of time

2. something that is left over because it is in excess of requirements

3. rubbish: toxic waste

4. Physiol matter discharged from the body as faeces or urine

5. wastes a region that is wild or uncultivated

Adjective

1. rejected as being useless, unwanted, or worthless: waste products

2. not cultivated or productive: waste ground

3. Physiol discharged from the body as faeces or urine: waste matter

4. lay waste or lay waste to to devastate or destroy: the Bikini atoll, laid waste by nuclear tests [Latin vastare to lay waste]

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waste  (wst)

Noun

An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product. See also hazardous wastelandfill

Verb

To lose or cause to lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor, as by the progressive effects of a disease such as metastatic cancer.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	waste - 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 material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" dross, impurity - worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water" exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes - gases ejected from an engine as waste products body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product, excretion - waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body filth, skank, crud - any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant sewage, sewerage - waste matter carried away in sewers or drains effluent, sewer water, wastewater - water mixed with waste matter food waste, garbage, refuse, scraps - food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) pollutant - waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil rubbish, trash, scrap - worthless material that is to be disposed of slop - (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand; "she carried out the sink slops" toxic industrial waste, toxic waste - poisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means)
	2.	waste - 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 boondoggle - work of little or no value done merely to look busy activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" waste of effort, waste of energy - a useless effort waste of material - a useless consumption of material waste of money - money spent for inadequate return; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money" waste of time - the devotion of time to a useless activity; "the waste of time could prove fatal" high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality, extravagance - excessive spending squandering - spending resources lavishly and wastefully; "more wasteful than the squandering of time"
	3.	waste - the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities" thriftlessness, wastefulness improvidence, shortsightedness - a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources
	4.	waste - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" barren, wasteland heathland, heath - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation wild, wilderness - a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"
	5.	waste - (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect permissive waste human action, human activity, act, deed - something that people do or cause to happen law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
Verb	1.	waste - spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree" squander, blow expend, use - use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" blow - spend lavishly or wastefully on; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater" burn - spend (significant amounts of money); "He has money to burn" economize, husband, economise, conserve - use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"
	2.	waste - use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize - put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"
	3.	waste - get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" chuck out, discard, cast aside, cast away, throw away, toss away, toss out, put away, throw out, cast out, dispose, fling, toss - throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"
	4.	waste - run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean" run off course, flow, run, feed - move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
	5.	waste - get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
	6.	waste - spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" ware, squander, consume fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, fool, dissipate, shoot - spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" luxuriate, wanton - become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously lavish, shower - expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise" overspend - spend at a high rate expend, spend, drop - pay out; "spend money" splurge, fling - indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV"
	7.	waste - lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" languish, pine away weaken - become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"
	8.	waste - cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" emaciate, macerate debilitate, enfeeble, drain - make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"
	9.	waste - cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, desolate ruin, destroy - destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" ruin - reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war"
	10.	waste - become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" rot degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop - grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" gangrene, necrose, sphacelate, mortify - undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
Adj.	1.	waste - located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" godforsaken, wild inhospitable - unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"

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waste

verb 1. squander, throw away, blow (slang) run through, lavish, misuse, dissipate, fritter away, frivol away (informal) << OPPOSITE save

2. (followed by away) wear out, wither, deplete, debilitate, drain, undermine, exhaust, disable, consume, gnaw, eat away, corrode, enfeeble, sap the strength of, emaciate

noun 3. squandering, misuse, loss, expenditure, extravagance, frittering away, lost opportunity, dissipation, wastefulness, misapplication, prodigality, unthriftiness << OPPOSITE saving

noun 4. rubbish, refuse, debris, sweepings, scrap, litter, garbage, trash, leftovers, offal, dross, dregs, leavings, offscourings

noun 5. (usually plural) desert, wilds, wilderness, void, solitude, wasteland

adjective 6. unwanted, useless, worthless, unused, leftover, superfluous, unusable, supernumerary << OPPOSITE necessary

adjective 7. uncultivated, wild, bare, barren, empty, devastated, dismal, dreary, desolate, unproductive, uninhabited << OPPOSITE cultivated lay something waste devastate, destroy, ruin, spoil, total (slang) sack, undo, trash (slang) ravage, raze, kennet Austral. (slang) jeff Austral. (slang) despoil, wreak havoc upon, depredate (rare)

waste away decline, dwindle, wither, perish, sink, fade, crumble, decay, wane, ebb, wear out, atrophy

USAGE Waste and wastage are to some extent interchangeable, but many people think that wastage should not be used to refer to loss resulting from human carelessness, inefficiency, etc: a waste (not a wastage) of time, money, effort, etc.

Translations

waste [weɪst] n → derroche m; despilfarro (= misuse); desgaste m [of time] → pérdida (= food); sobras fpl (= rubbish); basura, desperdicios mpl

adj [material] → de desecho (= left over); sobrante; [energy, heat] → desperdiciado; [land, ground] (in city) → sin construir: (in country) → baldío

vt (= squander) → malgastar, derrochar [+ time]; perder [+ opportunity]; desperdiciar;

wastes npl (= area of land) → tierras fpl baldías;

to lay waste → devastar, arrasar;

it's a waste of money → es tirar el dinero;

to go to waste → desperdiciarse

waste away vi → consumirse

waste [weɪst] n → gaspillage m [of time]; perte f (= rubbish); déchets mpl;

(also: household waste) → ordures fpl

adj [energy, heat] → perdu(e); [food] → inutilisé(e); [land, ground] (in city) → à l'abandon: (in country) → inculte, en friche (= leftover);

waste material → déchets vt → gaspiller [+ time, opportunity]; perdre;

wastes npl → étendue f désertique;

it's a waste of money → c'est de l'argent jeté en l'air;

to go to waste → être gaspillé(e);

to lay waste (= destroy) → dévaster

waste away vi → dépérir

waste [weɪst] n → Verschwendung f (= rubbish); Abfall m

adj [material] → Abfall- (= left over) [paper etc] → ungenutzt

vt → verschwenden [+ opportunity]; vertun;

wastes npl (area of land) → Wildnis f;

it's a waste of money → das ist Geldverschwendung;

to go to waste → umkommen;

to lay waste [+ area, town] → verwüsten

waste away waste vi → verkümmern

waste [weɪst] n → spreco; [of time] → perdita (= rubbish); rifiuti mpl

adj [material] → di scarto; [food] → avanzato/a; [energy, heat] → sprecato/a; [land, ground] (in city) → abbandonato/a: (in country) → incolto/a

vt → sprecare [+ time, opportunity]; perdere;

wastes npl → distesa desolata;

it's a waste of money → sono soldi sprecati;

to go to waste → andare sprecato;

to lay waste → devastare

waste away vi → deperire

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waste

v waste [weist]

to fail to use (something) fully or in the correct or most useful way You're wasting my time with all these stupid questions. mors, vermors يُضَيِّع، يُبَدِّد пилея plýtvat, promarnit spilde verschwenden σπαταλώ, χαραμίζω desperdiciar, malgastar raiskama تلف شدن tuhlata gaspiller לְבַזבֵּז बरबाद करना izgubiti elpazarol menyia-nyiakan eyða, sóa sprecare 浪費する ...을 낭비하다, 허비하다 veltui eikvoti, gaišinti tērēt; šķiest membuang, membazir verspillen kaste bort, sløse, ødelegge marnować desperdiçar a irosi, a pierde напрасно тратить premárniť zapravljati protraćiti slösa [] ใช้ไปอย่างเปล่าประโยชน์ boşa harcamak 浪費 даремно витрачати; марнувати برباد ہونا lãng phí 浪费

n

1 material which is or has been made useless industrial waste from the factories; (also adjective ) waste material. afval نُفايَه، فُضالَه отпадък zmetek; odpad; odpadový affald; affalds- der Abfall, Abfall-... απορρίμματα, απόβλητα residuos jääde پسماند jäte déchets פְּסוֹלֶת कचरा otpad hulladék bahan sampah, barang sisa úrgangur scarto; di scarto 廃棄物 폐기물, 폐물 atliekos paliekas; atkritumi sesuatu yang membazir afval avfall(sprodukt), skrap, søppel odpady desperdícios deşeuri, rebu­turi отходы odpad; odpadový odpadki; odpaden otpad avfall ของเสีย; ขยะ atık madde, çöp 廢料 відходи بے کار rác thải 废料

2 (the) act of wasting That was a waste of an opportunity. vermorsing ضَياع пилеене promarněný en forspildt mulighed die Verschwendung σπατάλη, άδικο χάσιμο desperdicio, pérdida raiskamine اتلاف haaskaus gaspillage לְהִתבַּזבֵּז बरबादी gubitak pazarlás pemborosan, pembuangan eyðsla, sóun spreco, perdita 浪費 낭비, 허비 eikvojimas veltui, praradimas izšķiešana; velta tērēšana mensia-siakan verspilling sløsing, sløseri zmarnowanie, strata perda irosire потеря; трата premárnenie, mrhanie zapravljanje traćenje slöseri การสูญเสียไปโดยเปล่าประโยชน์ israf, ziyan 浪費 зайва витрата; втрата بربادی lãng phí 浪费

3 a huge stretch of unused or infertile land, or of water, desert, ice etc the Arctic wastes. wildernis أرْض خَراب أو غَيْر خَصْبَه пустош pustina ødemark die Einöde έρημη έκταση terreno baldío/yermo kõnnumaa ضايعات erämaa terres désolées שְׁמָמָה बंजर pustopoljina pusztaság padang belantara eyðimörk, öræfi, auðn (terreno incolto/desolato) 荒地 황야, 황량한 곳 dykvietė tuksnesis; plašumi tanah tandus woestenij øde-/villmark pustkowie ermo de­şert простор;пустыня pustatina pustinja pustara ödemark พื้นที่ที่ไม่ได้ใช้ประโยชน์ ıssız yer, boş arazi 荒地 пустеля بنجر hoang mạc 荒地

n ˈwastage [-tidʒ]

loss by wasting; the amount wasted Of the total amount, roughly 20% was wastage. vermorsing, afval خَسارَه، تَلَف загуба ztráta svind der Verlust απώλεια desperdicio, pérdida; despilfarro kadu كاهش hävikki perte בִּזבּוּז बरबादी, फुजुलखर्ची gubitak hulladék jumlah yang terbuang eyðing, rÿrnun; það sem fer til spillis rifiuti, scarti 損失高 소모, 소모량 nuostolis zudumi pembaziran, kerugian verlies svinn, spill strata desperdício uzură убыток strata izguba otpad slöseri, svinn, bortfall การสูญเสีย; จำนวนที่สูญเสีย israf 浪費 усушка; втрати بربادی sự lãng phí 浪费

adj ˈwasteful

involving or causing waste Throwing away that bread is wasteful. vermorsend تَبْذيري، فيه مَضْيَعَه разточителен neúsporný ødsel verschwenderisch σπάταλος derrochador, despilfarrador raiskajalik اسراف كار tuhlaavainen gaspilleur בְּזבּזָנִי बरबादी rastrošan, pust pazarló mubazir eyðslusamur sprecone spreco 不経済な 낭비적인, 비경제적인 nuostolingas, išlaidus izšķērdīgs membazir verkwistend uøkonomisk (sløsing) rozrzutny, marnotrawny desperdiçado risi­pitor расточительный márnotratný potraten rasipnički slösaktig ซึ่งฟุ่มเฟือย; สิ้นเปลือง müsrif, savurgan 浪費的 марнотратний فضول خرچ gây lãng phí 浪费的

adv ˈwastefully

vermorsend بِتَبْذير، بِمضْيَعَه разточително marnotratně ødselt verschwenderisch σπάταλα derrochadoramente, despilfarradoramente raiskavalt اسراف كارانه tuhlailevasti en gaspillant בְּבִּזבּוּז फुजुलखर्ची से rastrošno, pusto pazarlóan secara mubazir á eyðslusaman hátt (sprecando) むだに 낭비적으로 nuostolingai izšķērdīgi secara membazir verkwistend uøkonomisk, sløsende rozrzutnie desperdiçadamente fără economie расточительно márnotratne potratno rasipnički slösaktigt อย่างฟุ่มเฟือย isaraf ederek 浪費地 марнотратно فضول خرچی سے một cách lãng phí 浪费地

n ˈwastefulness

vermorsendheid إضاعَه، تَبْذير разточеителност rozhazovačnost ødselhed die Verschwendung σπατάλη desperdicio; derroche, despilfarro raiskamine اسراف كاري tuhlailevaisuus manque d'économie בִּזבּוּז फुजुलखर्ची rastrošnost, pustoš könnyelműség kemubaziran eyðslusemi spreco むだ 낭비적임, 비경제성 eikvojimas, švaistymas izšķērdība sifat membazir verspilling sløseri, dårlig økonomi marnotrawstwo desperdício risipă расточительность márnotratnosť potratnost rasipništvo slösaktighet ความฟุ่มเฟือย israf, ziyankârlık 浪費 марнотратство فضول خرچی sự gây ra lãng phí 浪费

waste paper

paper which is thrown away as not being useful Offices usually have a great deal of waste paper. afvalpapier وَرَق نِفايات، وَرَق مُهْمَلات амабалажна хартия starý papír papiraffald das Abfall-/Altpapier χαρτί για πέταμα papeles usados, papel desechado jäätmepaber كاغذ باطله jätepaperi papier (à jeter) פְּסוֹלֶת נְייָר रद्दी otpadni papir papírszemét sampah kertas bréfarusl (carta straccia) 紙くず 휴지, 폐지 makulatūra makulatūra surat khabar terbuang scheurpapier papiravfall makulatura papéis usados maculatură ненужная бумага odpadkový papier odpaden papir korpa za otpatke pappersskräp กระดาษที่ทิ้งแล้ว lüzumsuz kâğıt 廢紙 макулатура ردی giấy lộn 废纸

wastepaper basket [ˈweispeipə]

a basket or other (small) container for waste paper Put those old letters in the wastepaper basket. afvalbak, snippermandjie سَلَّة وَرَق مُهْمَلات кошче за амбалажна хартия koš na papír papirkurv der Papierkorb καλάθι αχρήστων papelera paberikorv سطل كاغذ باطله paperikori corbeille à papier סַל נְייָרוֹת रद्दी की टोकरी košara za otpadni papir papírkosár keranjang sampah ruslakarfa (cestino per la carta straccia) 紙くず籠 휴지통 šiukšlių dėžė papīrgrozs bakul atau bekas untuk membuang surat khabar terbuang papiermand papirkurv kosz na śmieci cesto dos papéis coş de hârtii корзин(к)а для (ненужных) бумаг odpadkový kôš na papier koš za papir korpa za otpatke papperskorg ตะกร้าที่ใส่เศษกระดาษที่ทิ้งแล้ว çöp sepeti 廢紙簍 кошик для непотрібних паперів ردی کی ٹوکری thùng đựng giấy lộn 废纸篓

waste pipe [ˈweispaip]

a pipe to carry off waste material, or water from a sink etc The kitchen waste pipe is blocked. afvoerpyp أنبوب نِفايات отходна тръба odpadní roura afløbsrør das Abflußrohr σωλήνας αποχέτευσης desagüe äravoolutoru لوله فاضلاب viemäriputki (tuyau de) vidange צִינוֹר שוֹפכִין निकास पाइप odvodna cijev lefolyócső pipa limbah skolpleiðsla (tubazione di scarico) 排水管 배수관, 오수관 šiukšliavamzdis notekcaurule paip kumbahan afvoerbuis avløpsrør rura ściekowa cano de esgoto ţeavă de scurgere сливная труба odpadová rúra odvodna cev kanalizaciona cev avloppsrör ท่อน้ำเสีย pis su borusu 下水管道 стічна труба گندے پانی کو باہر نکالنے والی نلکی ống dẫn nước thải 下水管道

waste away

to decay; to lose weight, strength and health etc He is wasting away because he has a terrible disease. vergaan, verteer يهزُل، يَضْعُف، يَفْقِد قُوَّتَه слабея chřadnout sygne hen dahinsiechen λιώνω (μτφ.), εξαντλούμαι consumirse, demacrarse kuhtuma, otsa lõppema تحليل رفتن riutua dépérir לְהֵיחַלֵש घुलना, दुर्बल होना propadati, slabjeti lesoványodik merosot veslast upp, hnigna deperire 衰弱する 야위다, 쇠약해지다 menkti, nykti vārgt; nīkt; dilt semakin susut wegkwijnen tære bort, utmagres, utpines marnieć, usychać definhar a slăbi; a se şubrezi чахнуть chradnúť hirati slabiti försvagas, tyna bort อ่อนแอ eriyip bitmek, tükenmek 消瘦 всихати; марніти کمزور ہونا gầy mòn 消瘦