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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"
--1 is a kind of material, stuff
--1 has particulars: | | impurity, dross; exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes; body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product; filth, crud, skank; sewage, sewerage; effluent, wastewater, sewer water; garbage, refuse, food waste, scraps; pollutant; rubbish, trash, scrap; toxic waste, toxic industrial waste |
- 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"
--2 is a kind of activity
--2 has particulars:
- thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness - the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
--3 is a kind of improvidence, shortsightedness
- barren, waste, wasteland - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
--4 is a kind of wilderness, wild
--4 has particulars: heath, heathland
- waste, permissive waste - (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
--5 is a kind of act, human action, human activity
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"
--1 is one way to use, expend
Antonyms: conserve, husband, economize, economise
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- waste - use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
--2 is one way to use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
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- waste - get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
--3 is one way to discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away
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- waste, run off - run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"
--4 is one way to run, flow, feed, course
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Something is ----ing PP
- 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"
--5 is one way to kill
Sample sentence:
They want to waste the prisoners
- consume, squander, waste, ware - spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
--6 is one way to spend, expend, drop
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- pine away, waste, languish - lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
--7 is one way to weaken
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- waste, emaciate, macerate - cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
--8 is one way to enfeeble, debilitate, drain
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- lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge - devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
--9 is one way to destroy, ruin
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- waste, rot - waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
--10 is one way to devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
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