waste

/weɪst/ verbnounadjective
5 letters1 syllable8 points in Scrabble®8 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS16
VERB
1

Cause to grow thin or weak.

2

Spend extravagantly.

“waste not, want not”

3

Get rid of.

“We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer”

4

Use inefficiently or inappropriately.

“waste heat”

“waste a joke on an unappreciative audience”

5

Run off as waste.

“The water wastes back into the ocean”

6

Spend thoughtlessly; throw away.

“He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends”

7

Become physically weaker.

8

Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.

9

Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.

“The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion”

10

Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief.

NOUN
1

Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly.

“if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste”

2

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

3

The trait of wasting resources.

“a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste”

“the wastefulness of missed opportunities”

4

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”

5

An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.

“the trackless wastes of the desert”

ADJECTIVE
1

Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate.

“waste places”

WORD FORMS
Related formwastage
Related formwasting
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Pig Latinasteway
Starts & ends withW … E
Syllableswaste
SYNONYMS & RELATED36
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