Definitions
How to pronounce waste:
Waste - as a noun
Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
Example: "They collect the waste once a week"
Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
Example: "If the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"
The trait of wasting resources
Example: "A life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"
An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
Example: "The barrens of central africa"
(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
Waste - as an adjective satellite
Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
Example: "A desert island"
Waste - as a verb
Spend thoughtlessly; throw away
Example: "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"
Use inefficiently or inappropriately
Example: "Waste heat"
Dispose of
Example: "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
Example: "The mafia liquidated the informer"
Spend extravagantly
Example: "Waste not, want not"
Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
Example: "After her husband died, she just pined away"
Cause to grow thin or weak
Example: "The treatment emaciated him"
Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Example: "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
Become physically weaker
Example: "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
Waste - as an adjective
Uncultivated, uninhabited.
Barren; desert.
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
Superfluous; needless.
Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Unfortunate; disappointing.
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Word Game Points
WASTE has a SCRABBLE points total of 8.
WASTE has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 8.
WASTE has a WORDFEUD points total of 8.
