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")