| waste | |
| 1. n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish. | |
| 2. n. Excrement or urine. | |
| The cage was littered with animal waste | |
| 3. n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert. | |
| 4. n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed. | |
| 5. n. A large tract of uncultivated land. | |
| 6. n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land. | |
| 7. n. A vast expanse of water. | |
| 8. n. A disused mine or part of one. | |
| 9. n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use. | |
| That was a waste of time | |
| Her life seemed a waste | |
| 10. n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used. | |
| 11. n. Gradual loss or decay. | |
| 12. n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away. | |
| 13. n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste". | |
| 14. n. (legal) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or charact | |
| 15. n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea. | |
| 16. adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited. | |
| 17. adj. Barren; desert. | |
| 18. adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess. | |
| 19. adj. Superfluous; needless. | |
| 20. adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless. | |
| 21. v. to devastate, destroy | |
| 22. v. To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly. | |
| We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project. | |
| 23. v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder. | |
| 24. v. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. | |
| 25. v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail. | |
| 26. v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually. | |
| 27. v. (legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay. | |
