Waste ¹

Definition: Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

Waste ²

Definition: Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

Waste ³

Definition: Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

Waste ⁴

Definition: To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

Waste ⁵

Definition: To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

Waste ⁶

Definition: To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

Waste ⁷

Definition: To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

Waste ⁸

Definition: To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.

Waste ⁹

Definition: To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

Waste ¹⁰

Definition: The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.

Waste ¹¹

Definition: That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.

Waste ¹²

Definition: That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

Waste ¹³

Definition: Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.

Waste ¹⁴

Definition: Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

waste ¹⁵

Definition: 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 ¹⁶

Definition: (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

waste ¹⁷

Definition: the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"

waste ¹⁸

Definition: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"

waste ¹⁹

Definition: 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 ²⁰

Definition: waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

waste ²¹

Definition: devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

waste ²²

Definition: cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"

waste ²³

Definition: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"

waste ²⁴

Definition: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

waste ²⁵

Definition: use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"

waste ²⁶

Definition: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"

waste ²⁷

Definition: run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"

waste ²⁸

Definition: get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"

waste ²⁹

Definition: spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

waste ³⁰

Definition: located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"

waste ³¹

Definition: disposed of as useless; "waste paper"