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

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