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waste

English

🔊 located in a dismal or remote area
“a desert island”
🔊 useless or profitless activity
“if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste”
🔊 (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
🔊 any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
“they collect the waste once a week”
🔊 the trait of wasting resources
“a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste”
🔊 an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
“the barrens of central Africa”
🔊 become physically weaker
“Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world”
🔊 cause to grow thin or weak
“The treatment emaciated him”
🔊 use inefficiently or inappropriately
“waste heat”
🔊 run off as waste
“The water wastes back into the ocean”
🔊 get rid of
“We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer”
🔊 spend thoughtlessly
“He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends”
🔊 cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
“The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion”
🔊 lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
“After her husband died, she just pined away”
🔊 spend extravagantly
“waste not, want not”
🔊 get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
“The mafia liquidated the informer”