Search Result:waste


KK Pronunciation

〔 west 〕

Pronunciation

〔 weist 〕


Overview of noun waste

The noun waste has 5 senses


  • waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product -- (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, wastefulness, dissipation -- (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")

  • thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness -- (the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities")

  • barren, waste, wasteland -- (an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert")

  • waste, permissive waste -- ((law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect)


Overview of verb waste

The verb waste has 10 senses


  • waste, blow, squander -- (spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree")

  • waste -- (use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience")

  • waste -- (get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer")

  • waste, run off -- (run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean")

  • neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in -- (get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized")

  • consume, squander, waste, ware -- (spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not")

  • pine away, waste, languish -- (lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away")

  • waste, emaciate, macerate -- (cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him")

  • lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge -- (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion")

  • waste, rot -- (become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world")


Overview of adj waste

The adj waste has 1 sense


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