Waste

Definition:

(a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
(a.) Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
(a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
(a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
(a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
(a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
(a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
(v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
(v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
(v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
(v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
(v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
(v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
(v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

Compare waste with other words:

waste vs. wastel

wasite vs. waste

wasta vs. waste

baste vs. waste

caste vs. waste

paste vs. waste

taste vs. waste

haste vs. waste

filth vs. waste

fritter vs. waste

exhaust vs. waste

preserve vs. waste

economy vs. waste

detritus vs. waste

uropoetic vs. waste

overwasted vs. waste

rejectamenta vs. waste

devastavit vs. waste

forwaste vs. waste

dispend vs. waste

stowing vs. waste

dustcart vs. waste

gobbing vs. waste

recrement vs. waste

dispose vs. waste

spare vs. waste

squandered vs. waste

loosing vs. waste

refuse vs. waste

lavish vs. waste

residue vs. waste

hogwash vs. waste

splurge vs. waste

disposable vs. waste

scrap vs. waste

fangle vs. waste

economizer vs. waste

diddle vs. waste

excreta vs. waste

egesta vs. waste

waste vs. wasting

sinkhole vs. waste

reclaim vs. waste

spurn vs. waste

trashy vs. waste

truant vs. waste

reject vs. waste

spoil vs. waste

trifle vs. waste

fribble vs. waste

macerate vs. waste

swill vs. waste

atrophy vs. waste

dissipate vs. waste

sewage vs. waste

extravagance vs. waste

economize vs. waste

harass vs. waste

bangle vs. waste

stoma vs. waste

piffle vs. waste

sewer vs. waste

frugal vs. waste

desolater vs. waste

corrode vs. waste

shack vs. waste

profligate vs. waste

elimination vs. waste

dissipation vs. waste

dilapidation vs. waste

dally vs. waste

waist vs. waste

canker vs. waste

manure vs. waste

sanitation vs. waste

faeces vs. waste

litter vs. waste

entropy vs. waste

waste vs. wastrel

waste vs. wastethrift

waste vs. waster

wastage vs. waste

frail vs. waste

waste vs. wasted

waste vs. weaken

waste vs. weight

squander vs. waste

devastate vs. waste

waste vs. wasteness

excess vs. waste

needless vs. waste

waste vs. worthless

defective vs. waste

eliminate vs. waste

waste vs. wasteful

property vs. waste

rubbish vs. waste

product vs. waste

garbage vs. waste

decay vs. waste

devastation vs. waste

abundance vs. waste

extravagant vs. waste

ineffectual vs. waste

disuse vs. waste

expanse vs. waste

uncultivated vs. waste

tract vs. waste

destroy vs. waste

desert vs. waste

waste vs. wilderness

region vs. waste

desolate vs. waste

uninhabited vs. waste

secrete vs. waste

trash vs. waste

feces vs. waste

urination vs. waste

spend vs. waste

quail vs. waste

speech vs. waste

incoherent vs. waste

gangue vs. waste

prattle vs. waste

apply vs. waste

bulldust vs. waste

anchor vs. waste

cathead vs. waste

twaddle vs. waste

balderdash vs. waste

baloney vs. waste

nonsense vs. waste

pollutant vs. waste

rhubarb vs. waste

waste vs. writing

reprehensible vs. waste

meaningless vs. waste

bologna vs. waste

poppycock vs. waste

abrade vs. waste