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Sounds | wey'st |
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Rhymes | aftertaste, based, braced, and 23 more rhymes in eyst at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Disposed of as useless. |
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Examples | "waste paper" |
Synonyms | cast-off, discarded, junked, scrap |
Similar to | useless |
Meaning | Located in a dismal or remote area. Desolate. |
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Examples | "waste places" |
Synonyms | desert, godforsaken, wild |
Similar to | inhospitable |
Meaning | Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted. |
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Examples | "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" |
Synonyms | waste material, waste matter, waste product |
Narrower | impurity, dross; exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes; body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product; filth, crud, skank; sewage, sewerage; effluent, wastewater, sewer water; garbage, refuse, food waste, scraps; pollutant; rubbish, trash, scrap; toxic waste, toxic industrial waste |
Broader | material, stuff |
Verbs | waste; waste |
Meaning | Useless or profitless activity. Using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly. |
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Examples | "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste" |
Synonyms | wastefulness, dissipation |
Narrower | boondoggle; waste of effort, waste of energy; waste of material; waste of money; waste of time; extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, highlife, high life; squandering |
Broader | activity |
Verbs | waste; waste; waste |
Meaning | The trait of wasting resources. |
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Examples | "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities" |
Synonyms | thriftlessness, wastefulness |
Broader | improvidence, shortsightedness |
Verbs | waste; waste |
Meaning | An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation. |
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Examples | "the trackless wastes of the desert" |
Synonyms | barren, wasteland |
Narrower | heath, heathland |
Broader | wilderness, wild |
Meaning | (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect. |
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Synonyms | permissive waste |
Category | law, jurisprudence |
Broader | act, human action, human activity |
Meaning | Spend thoughtlessly. Throw away. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends" |
Synonyms | blow, squander |
Narrower | burn |
Broader | use, expend |
Contrary | conserve, husband, economize, economise |
Similar to | blow |
Nouns | waste; waste; waster |
Meaning | Use inefficiently or inappropriately. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" |
Broader | use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ |
Nouns | waste; waste |
Meaning | Get rid of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" |
Broader | discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away |
Nouns | waste |
Meaning | Run off as waste. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
Examples | "The water wastes back into the ocean" |
Synonyms | run off |
Broader | run, flow, feed, course |
Nouns | waste |
Meaning | Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | They want to waste the prisoners |
Synonyms | neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, knock off, do in |
Broader | kill |
Meaning | Spend extravagantly. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "waste not, want not" |
Synonyms | consume, squander, ware |
Narrower | fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away; luxuriate, wanton; lavish, shower; overspend; splurge, fling |
Broader | spend, expend, drop |
Nouns | waste; waster |
Meaning | Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | pine away, languish |
Broader | weaken |
Nouns | wastage |
Meaning | Cause to grow thin or weak. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Synonyms | emaciate, macerate |
Cause to | emaciate |
Broader | enfeeble, debilitate, drain |
Nouns | wastage; wasting |
Meaning | Devastate or ravage. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" |
Synonyms | lay waste to, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge |
Narrower | ruin |
Broader | destroy, ruin |
Nouns | waster |
Meaning | Waste away. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Synonyms | rot |
Narrower | necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate |
Broader | devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate |
Nouns | wastage |