Waste is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WASTE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to consume lavishly or thoughtlessly, also WAST
• use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose
• expend on an unappreciative recipient
• fail to make full or good use of
• deliberately dispose of (surplus stock)
• (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated
• make progressively weaker and more emaciated
• devastate or ruin (a place)
• kill or severely injure (someone)
• (of time) pass away
• use pointlessly or thoughtlessly
• To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
• To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
• The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
• That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
• That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
• Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
• Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
• spend thoughtlessly; throw away
• use inefficiently or inappropriately
• get rid of
• run off as waste
• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
• spend extravagantly
• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
• cause to grow thin or weak
• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• become physically weaker
NOUN:
• an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose
• the gradual loss or diminution of something
• unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products
• a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land
• damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.
• any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
• useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
• the trait of wasting resources
• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
• (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
• act of wasting or state of being wasted
ADJECTIVE:
• (of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process
• (of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on
• Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
• Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
• Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
• To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
• To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
• To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
• To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
• located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
• rejected as worthless or surplus to requirements
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to use thoughtlessly

Words related to WASTE

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Words that contain WASTE

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How to use WASTE in a sentence

• As for Caesar, he proceeded with four legions to the territory of the Eburones to lay it waste.
• I only marvelled how his Honour could waste his time and mine by putting what he thought were searching questions to the accused relating to his past.
• The expense attending this species of defense, with the exposure of the inhabitants and the waste of property, may readily be conceived.
• They dug out his marshes and laid waste his swamps.
• Sleep is still admitted to be a waste of time, though one with which Nature alone is chargeable.
• What had been the richest and most productive farming land in Europe was made a barren waste.
• Obviously the first point of attack is the stopping of waste.
• The only criticism I have to make is that I wish they would waste it more carefully.
• What a pretty battle it is, and in a good cause, too! Waste no pity on that big black ruffian.
• Rubber dazzled them, as gold and diamonds have dazzled other men and driven them forth to wander through the wide waste spaces of the world.
• The cultivation of large areas, previously lying waste and idle, afforded both directly and indirectly employment for an increased population, as did the numerous public works.
• The Country Colony, with its Industrial Villages, Suburban Farms, and Waste Settlements, will involve a still heavier outlay of capital.
• With the ten in your hand together there is always a temptation to waste them in one wild rush of flipperties, all catching each other up.
• And partly she danced as Europeans dance and partly as the fairies of the waste who lure, as legend has it, lost travellers to their doom.
• As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time.
• It seemed impossible except by the merest chance to find trace of another human in a waste so vast.
• The Bookseller desired his lordship to speak in its favour, since he liked it, as the impression lay on his hands as waste paper.
• It was known to be waste of words, and trouble in vain.
• Our front line was some miles to the east, and so all that waste of country over which we had fought was now without inhabitants.
• But if the question asked started the process, without waste of time in trying to find out what it meant, the question is good.
• It is better far to accept fate, to comply with the inevitable, and not waste time and strength in fighting against the iron gates of destiny.
• A drive would be put in for a certain distance, when it had to be abandoned until it could be filled up with waste material and made secure.
• His action was deliberate, without hurry, but without waste of time.
• As the result mainly of the waste of war, Ireland, which ought to be a richly wooded country, is very poor in that regard.
• By means of this waste heat, from 200 to 300 tons of salt per week were now obtained.

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