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waste English

Meaning waste meaning

What does waste mean?
Definitions in simple English

waste Verb

— To use something for no reason, or for bad reasons or only little reasons, and after it is used no one can use it again. He wasted the food by making it dirty.

waste Noun

— Things that are not useful; things that people want to take out of their house.

waste

— verb (= squander) spend thoughtlessly; throw away He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree — verb use inefficiently or inappropriately waste heat waste a joke on an unappreciative audience — noun (= waste material) 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 — noun (= dissipation) 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 — noun (= thriftlessness, wastefulness) the trait of wasting resources a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste the wastefulness of missed opportunities — noun (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect — verb become physically weaker Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world — verb (= emaciate) cause to grow thin or weak The treatment emaciated him — verb get rid of We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer — verb (= run off) run off as waste The water wastes back into the ocean — adjective (= godforsaken, wild) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate a desert island a godforsaken wilderness crossroads a wild stretch of land waste places — verb (= lay waste to) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion — verb (= pine away) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief After her husband died, she just pined away — noun (= barren) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation the barrens of central Africa the trackless wastes of the desert — verb spend extravagantly waste not, want not — verb (= neutralize, neutralise, liquidate) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing The mafia liquidated the informer the double agent was neutralized

Synonyms waste synonyms

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waste English » English

squander garbage rubbish loss trash refuse spend destroy spoil squandering dissipate desert damage consume ruin lose scrap wastefulness extravagance wasteland use up ravage kill devastate decay debris barren lavish dissipation desolate wastage spoilage litter leftovers wilderness wild wasting wasteful useless misuse knock off junk injury eliminate dregs do in diminish destruction worthless waste matter

Topics waste topics

What do people use waste to talk about?
States Quality Good Decay

Garbage
Person Body functions

Defecate, feces
Person Life Die

Kill
Work and occupation Work Method Use

Waste
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Spend
Person Healthy Disease

Malnutrition, starvation
States Quantity More

Decrease
States Big Thick

Thin person

Conjugation waste conjugation

How do you conjugate waste?

waste · verb

Examples waste examples

How do I use waste in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It's a waste of time and money.
It seems a waste of time to wait any longer.
Men believe that discussing problems is a waste of time.
I told you this was a waste of time.
In western civilisation, waste of food is still a common thing.
Tom didn't want to waste time.
This day was just a waste of time and money.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Haste makes waste.
This meeting is a waste of time. Everybody is just talking in vague theoretical terms.
We mustn't waste our energy resources.
What a waste of water!
What a waste of energy!
Waste not, want not.
Don't waste your allowance on useless things.
Don't waste your time on trifles.
Don't waste time on trifles.
We are apt to waste time.
Buy cheap and waste your money.
Another interesting source of energy is the heat that can be recovered from radioactive waste material.
Trying to do such a thing is a waste of time.
It is a sheer waste of time.

Movie subtitles

During the time an examination lasted, the only movement allowed was the passage of servants, replenishing food and water supplies, or removing human waste.
It's such a waste, a waste.
Give that up. It's just a waste of time.
I mean, don't waste a single second.
That's it, use all of the contraction, don't waste a moment of it.
Why waste energy on someone with no intention of staying?
Yeah, this was a waste of time.
How much more time will you waste with your whims?
And out of a dream in that frozen waste, a city grew. And humanity warmed it with living, loving and desiring.
No, my friends! We cannot waste bullets!
Let's not waste this chicken with golden eggs. It's already decided.
He don't have to waste his time on cheap gas stations.
Don't waste your pellets.
Why waste time when France offered you to skip centuries and enter the modern world.
What a tragic waste.
Oh no, it would be much waste, I shall buy it.
Don't waste your time down there.
No, little Sister, mustn't waste your tears on me.
Why waste time?
We haven't any time to waste.
Come, Mr. Rainsford. Let us not waste time.
What a waste of money.
You've no time to waste.
I have so little free time, Aage, that to spend it sleeping seems a waste.
How much more time are you going to waste on this business?
Here, at the place of his humiliation, the old man would waste away miserably for the rest of his life and here the story would, strictly speaking, be over.
They'd be treated as waste.
Don't waste any more time.
Why waste time? It's getting late.
You waste too much trying to keep this place too warm.
I won't waste words with you.
Well.. it's a waste of education.
I have no time to waste.
Now please don't waste any time.
You see, I'd prefer that only one go to waste.
Isn't it a waste of energy?

News and current affairs

The response - massive spending cuts - ensures that unacceptably high levels of unemployment (a vast waste of resources and an oversupply of suffering) will continue, possibly for years.
The fallout from nuclear waste is one; humans' contribution to global warming through greenhouse-gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, and its impact on rising sea levels, is another.
But there are ways to waste less.
This would not cut carbon emissions spectacularly, but nor would it be a spectacular waste of public funds.
Europe cannot afford to waste valuable human capital at a time when China and India are on the rise and its own population is aging.
Sure, we can find more fossil fuels, but at much higher cost and at much greater environmental risk from industrial spills, waste products, leaks, and other damage.
Looking for them is a waste of resources.
Likewise, China's government cannot continue to waste resources on economic-stimulus packages that have led to industrial overcapacity and skyrocketing local-government debt.
Still, it is striking that just as China is rising economically and geopolitically, the US seems to be doing everything possible to waste its own economic, technological, and geopolitical advantages.
And India has become a leader in converting biomass and food waste into energy.
Nuclear energy presents a number of disadvantages, owing to concerns about safety and disposal of radioactive waste.
For example, the six million tons of waste produced annually by Niger could theoretically be used to meet that country's entire energy needs.
And we will waste another decade.
In addition to the shocking waste of lives and money from the Iraq war, America has done the world another great disservice.
Europe is being cautious in the name of avoiding debt and defending the euro, whereas the US has moved on many fronts in order not to waste an ideal opportunity to implement badly needed structural reforms.
Indeed, the opposite is true. Nuclear power is saddled with three major unresolved risks: plant safety, nuclear waste, and, most menacing of all, the risk of military proliferation.
Other elements of Lee's plan include construction of eco-friendly transportation networks, such as high-speed railways and hundreds of kilometers of bicycle tracks, and generating energy using waste methane from landfills.
It matters to countries that have decided to phase out nuclear power, because their plants will continue to operate for decades and will need to be decommissioned, with nuclear waste stored safely.
Given that most of these items are not biodegradable, and are not recycled, plastics waste is building up - with serious environmental consequences.
Closed-loop recycling, in which plastics waste is used to make another product, thus carries significant environmental benefits, such as reduced energy and oil consumption.
But the process of separating the petroleum-based recyclable plastics from other kinds of plastics and solid waste is difficult, costly, and labor-intensive, so only a small proportion is recycled.
An example of successful waste management is the reprocessing of PET bottles (made of polyethylene terephthalate) into polyester fibers.
In the last decade, Japan passed several laws obliging both businesses and individuals to separate plastics waste.
That this should happen while developed nations waste hundreds of millions of tons of grain and soybeans by feeding them to animals, and obesity reaches epidemic proportions, undermines our claims to believe in the equal value of all human life.
And, thanks to the large pool of savings generated by Chinese households and state-owned companies, the Chinese economy can for the time being bear the waste and misallocation implied by such crony capitalism.

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