1. (

• 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" ;

2. (

• 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" ;

3. (

• thriftlessness ,
• waste ,
• wastefulness

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

4. (

• barren ,
• waste ,
• wasteland

) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" ;

5. (

• waste ,
• permissive_waste

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

1. (

• waste ,
• blow ,
• squander ,

) spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree" ;

2. (

• waste ,

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

3. (

• waste ,

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

4. (

• waste ,
• run_off ,

) run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean" ;

5. (

• 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" ;

6. (

• consume ,
• squander ,
• waste ,
• ware

) spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" ;

7. (

• pine_away ,
• waste ,
• languish

) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" ;

8. (

• waste ,
• emaciate ,
• macerate ,

) cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" ;

9. (

• lay_waste_to ,
• waste ,
• devastate ,
• desolate ,
• ravage ,
• scourge ,

) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" ;

10. (

• waste ,
• rot

) become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" ;

1. (

• 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" ;