Main entry: 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
Main entry: waste, permissive waste
Definition: (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
Main entry: waste, wastefulness, thriftlessness
Definition: the trait of wasting resources
Usage: a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste; the wastefulness of missed opportunities
Main entry: waste, wasteland, barren
Definition: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
Usage: the barrens of central Africa; the trackless wastes of the desert
Main entry: 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
Definition: become physically weaker
Usage: Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
Main entry: 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
Main entry: emaciate, waste, macerate
Definition: cause to grow thin or weak
Usage: The treatment emaciated him
Main entry: languish, pine away, waste
Definition: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
Usage: After her husband died, she just pined away
Main entry: consume, squander, waste, ware
Definition: spend extravagantly
Usage: waste not, want not
Main entry: waste
Definition: use inefficiently or inappropriately
Usage: waste heat; waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
Main entry: 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
Definition: run off as waste
Usage: The water wastes back into the ocean
Main entry: waste
Definition: get rid of
Usage: We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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