Synonyms: waste, wastefulness, dissipation
Definition: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
Usage: if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste; mindless dissipation of natural resources
Similar words: activity
Definition: any specific behavior
Usage: they avoided all recreational activity
Synonyms: waste, permissive waste
Definition: (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
Similar words: human action, human activity, deed, act
Definition: something that people do or cause to happen
Synonyms: waste, wastefulness, thriftlessness
Definition: the trait of wasting resources
Usage: a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste; the wastefulness of missed opportunities
Similar words: improvidence, shortsightedness
Definition: a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources
Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren
Definition: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
Usage: the barrens of central Africa; the trackless wastes of the desert
Similar words: wild, wilderness
Definition: a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
Usage: it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers
Synonyms: waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product
Definition: any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
Usage: they collect the waste once a week; much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers
Similar words: material, stuff
Definition: the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
Usage: coal is a hard black material; wheat is the stuff they use to make bread
Definition: become physically weaker
Usage: Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
Similar words: deteriorate, devolve, degenerate, drop
Definition: grow worse
Usage: Her condition deteriorated; Conditions in the slums degenerated; The discussion devolved into a shouting match
Synonyms: desolate, devastate, scourge, lay waste to, ravage, waste
Definition: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Usage: The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
Definition: destroy completely; damage irreparably
Usage: You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!; The tears ruined her make-up
Synonyms: emaciate, waste, macerate
Definition: cause to grow thin or weak
Usage: The treatment emaciated him
Synonyms: languish, pine away, waste
Definition: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
Usage: After her husband died, she just pined away
Similar words: weaken
Definition: become weaker
Usage: The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days
Synonyms: consume, squander, waste, ware
Definition: spend extravagantly
Usage: waste not, want not
Synonyms: waste
Definition: use inefficiently or inappropriately
Usage: waste heat; waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
Similar words: use, utilise, utilize, employ, apply
Definition: put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
Usage: use your head!; we only use Spanish at home; I can't use this tool; Apply a magnetic field here; This thinking was applied to many projects; How do you utilize this tool?; I apply this rule to get good results; use the plastic bags to store the food; He doesn't know how to use a computer
Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, do in, waste, knock off, liquidate
Definition: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
Usage: The mafia liquidated the informer; the double agent was neutralized
Similar words: kill
Definition: cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
Usage: This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank; The farmer killed a pig for the holidays
Definition: run off as waste
Usage: The water wastes back into the ocean
Similar words: flow, feed, course, run
Definition: move along, of liquids
Usage: Water flowed into the cave; the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
Synonyms: waste
Definition: get rid of
Usage: We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
Similar words: discard, dispose, toss, toss away, toss out, throw away, throw out, fling, put away, cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out
Definition: throw or cast away
Usage: Put away your worries
Synonyms: waste, squander, blow
Definition: spend thoughtlessly; throw away
Usage: He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends; You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
Definition: use up, consume fully
Usage: The legislature expended its time on school questions
Synonyms: waste, wild, godforsaken
Definition: located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
Usage: a desert island; a godforsaken wilderness crossroads; a wild stretch of land; waste places
Similar words: inhospitable
Definition: unfavorable to life or growth
Usage: the barren inhospitable desert; inhospitable mountain areas