Definition of waste

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Waste (a.) 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.

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Vast :: Vast (n.) A waste region; boundless space; immensity.
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow..
Decrepit :: Decrepit (a.) Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..
Goaf :: Goaf (n.) That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob .
Corrupt :: Corrupt (v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless..
Uropoetic :: Uropoetic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a system of organs which eliminate nitrogenous waste matter from the blood of certain invertebrates..
Wearer :: Wearer (n.) That which wastes or diminishes.
Wastage :: Wastage (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste..
Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation..
Wasteful :: Wasteful (a.) Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
Harry :: Harry (v. t.) To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land..
Forspent :: Forspent (a.) Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.
Vinasse :: Vinasse (n.) The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, -- used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate..
Dally :: Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle..
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy..
Devastavit :: Devastavit (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.
Dwine :: Dwine (v. i.) To waste away; to pine; to languish.
Dissipation :: Dissipation (n.) The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
Estrepe :: Estrepe (v. t.) To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste..
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