waste
— Noun
– English
～ 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"
waste matter
— Noun
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～ 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
— Verb
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～ cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
waste one's time
— Verb
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～ be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
waste
— Verb
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～ spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
waste
— Verb
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～ get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
waste
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～ get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
waste
— Verb
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～ lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
waste
— Verb
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～ cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
waste
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～ use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
waste
— Verb
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～ become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
waste
— Verb
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～ run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"
waste
— Adjective
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～ located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
wastebasket
— Noun
– English
～ a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish
wastebin
— Noun
– English
～ a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected
wasted
— Adjective
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～ not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
wasted
— Adjective
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～ serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"
wasted
— Adjective
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～ very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"