waste /weɪst/
1. 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"
synset: waste, waste_material, waste_matter, waste_product
2. 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"
synset: waste, wastefulness, dissipation
3. the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
synset: thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness
4. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
synset: barren, waste, wasteland
5. (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
synset: waste, permissive_waste
1. spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
antonym: conserve, husband, economize, economise
2. use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
synset: waste
3. get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
synset: waste
4. run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"
5. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
synset: neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock_off, do_in
6. spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
synset: consume, squander, waste, ware
7. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
synset: pine_away, waste, languish
8. cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
synset: waste, emaciate, macerate
9. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
synset: lay_waste_to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge
10. become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
1. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
synset: godforsaken, waste, wild
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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