waste
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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
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~ lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
waste
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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
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~ become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
waste
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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
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~ a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish
wastebin
— Noun
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~ 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
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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"
wasted
— Adjective
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~ (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"
wasteful
— Adjective
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~ inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"
wasteful
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~ laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare
wasteful
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~ tending to squander and waste
wastefully
— Adverb
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~ to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree; "we are still prodigally rich compared to others"
wastefulness
— Noun
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~ the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
wastefulness
— Noun
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~ 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"