Waste

Noun

 * 1) A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness.
 * 2) A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
 * 3) A large tract of uncultivated land.
 * 4) A vast expanse of water.
 * 5) A disused mine or part of one.
 * 6) The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
 * 7) Large abundance of something, especially without it being used.
 * 8) Gradual loss or decay.
 * 9) A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
 * 10)  Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"
 * 11) Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
 * 12) Excrement (animal waste, human waste).
 * 13)  A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.

Adjective

 * 1)  Uncultivated, uninhabited.
 * 2) Barren; desert.
 * 3) Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
 * 4) Superfluous; needless.
 * 5) Unfortunate; Disappointing.

Verb

 * 1)  To devastate or destroy.
 * 2)  Use up, diminish, reduce by gradual loss; decay; emaciate.
 * 3)  Squander money or resources uselessly; spend time idly.
 * 4)  Kill; murder.
 * 5)  Gradually lose weight or weaken.

Adjectives for Waste
unbridled; trackless; wandering; sinful; deliberate; dismal; encompassing; watery; woeful; colorless; indeterminate; gloomy; senseless; vast; thriftless; solemn-sounding; stupendous; unnecessary; terrible; inexcusable; wintry; glimmering; unproductive; arctic; barren; widening; sprinkled; spiritual; lonely; putrid; melancholy; simple; premature; colossal; tragic; aching; positive; nitrogenous; inward; desolate; hurried; remote; snowy; frightful; hopeless; burning; pathless; muscular; weltering; garden; flowering; sanctuary; shoreless; lavish; unpardonable; fruitless; boundless; ruinous; digestive; uninhabited; woodland; full; sandy; merciless; monstrous; howling; arid; frozen; turbid; war-worn; useless; dreary; dangerous; sterile; insidious; desert; wanton; verdant; enormous; tedious; billowy; illimitable; untamed; profligate; dread; moldering.

Verbs for Waste
abate—; bewail—; check—; countenance—; curb—; curtail—; decry—; detect—; diminish—; discharge—; eliminate—; excrete—; harvest—; imply—; incur—; manufacture—; rebuke for—; reproach for—; restore—; result in—; retrieve—; rid of—; upbraid for—; wipe out—; withdraw—; —abuses; —accumulates; —appals; —declines; —denudes; —desecrates; —diminishes; —dissipates; —endangers; —shrinks; —squanders; —threatens.

Adverbs for Waste
unprofitably; improvidently; rashly; carelessly; heedlessly; deliberately; woefully; senselessly; stupendously; unnecessarily; unproductively; spiritually; ruthlessly; fruitlessly; wantonly; profligately.

Thesaurus
Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, abate, ablate, ablation, absorption, acarpous, afterglow, afterimage, arid, assimilation, atrophy, attenuate, attrition, back, back of beyond, back-country, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, balance, barren, barren land, barrens, bate, be consumed, be eaten away, be gone, be used up, blast, bloodbath, blot out, blow, blue ruin, blunder away, bones, breakup, bring to ruin, brush, bump off, burning up, bush, butt, butt end, candle ends, carnage, carpe diem, cast away, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, celibate, chaff, childless, condemn, confound, conspicuous consumption, consume, consume away, consumption, corrode, corrosion, croak, crumble, culm, damn, damnation, deadwood, deal destruction, debris, decimate, decimation, decline, decrease, decrement, dejecta, dejection, dejecture, deliquesce, deliquescence, dematerialize, depart, deplete, depletion, depreciate, depreciation, depredate, depredation, desecrate, desert, desolate, desolation, despoil, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, detritus, devastate, devastation, devour, die, die away, die out, digestion, diminish, disappear, discharge, dishwater, disintegration, disorganization, dispel, disperse, disruption, dissipate, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, dive, do a fade-out, do in, draff, drain, drained, dregs, dribble away, dried-up, drivel, droop, drop, drop off, dry, dry up, dust, dust bowl, dwindle, eating up, ebb, effluent, egesta, ejecta, ejectamenta, ejection, emacerate, emaciate, emaciation, end, engorge, erase, erode, erosion, evanesce, evaporate, evaporation, excrement, excreta, excretes, exhaust, exhausted, exhaustion, exit, expend, expending, expenditure, extravagance, extravagancy, extravasate, extravasation, exudate, exudation, fade, fade away, fade out, fag end, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, fallow, filings, finishing, fix, flag, flee, fly, fool away, fossil, fritter, frivol, fruitless, garbage, gash, gaunt, gelded, get, give out, give the business, go, go away, gobble, gobble up, gun down, gut, gut with fire, havoc, heath, hecatomb, hide, hinterland, hit, hogwash, holdover, holocaust, howling wilderness, husks, ice, impotent, impoverishment, incinerate, incontinence, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, ingestion, intemperance, issueless, jejune, jungle, junk, karroo, kelter, languish, lavishness, lay in ruins, lay out, lay waste, leached, leakage, leaking purse, leave no trace, leave the scene, leavings, lees, leftovers, lessen, let up, litter, loose purse strings, lose, lose strength, loss, lunar landscape, lunar waste, macerate, marcescence, melt, melt away, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, odds and ends, off, offal, offscourings, orts, outback, overdoing, overgenerosity, overgenerousness, overliberality, parch, parings, pass, pass away, pass out, peak, perdition, perish, peter out, pillage, pine, pine away, plummet, plunge, polish off, potsherds, pound-foolishness, preshrink, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, rags, raspings, ravage, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, retire from sight, roach, rub out, rubbish, rubble, ruin, ruinate, ruination, ruins, rummage, rump, run down, run dry, run low, run out, run to seed, run to waste, sack, sag, salt flat, sawdust, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, sear, settle, shadow, shambles, shards, shavings, shipwreck, shrink, shrinkage, shrivel, sine prole, sink, slack, slag, slaughter, slop, slops, spend, spending, spill, spoliate, spoliation, squander, squandering, squandermania, sterile, straw, stubble, stump, subside, sucked dry, suffer an eclipse, survival, swallow up, sweepings, swill, sylvan, tail off, take care of, tares, teemless, thin, throw into disorder, trace, transudate, transudation, trash, uncultivated, undoing, unfertile, unfruitful, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, up-country, upheave, use up, using, using up, vandalism, vandalize, vanish, vanish from sight, vaporize, vestige, virgin, wane, wastage, waste away, waste matter, wasted, wastefulness, wasteland, wastepaper, wasting away, weaken, wear, wear and tear, wear away, wearing, wearing away, wearing down, weary waste, weazen, weeds, wild, wilderness, wildness, wilds, wilt, wilting, wipe out, wither, wither away, withering, without issue, wizen, woodland, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreak havoc, wreck, zap

Etymology 1
From waste:, from  wast:, waste:, of  origin, from  *undefined:, derivative of *undefined:, possibly from  vasto:, merging with Low  *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with waste:,  wuosti:,  wuostinna:,  westen:.

Etymology 2
From waste:, from  wast:, a conflation of  vastus: and  *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with wuosti:,  wosti:,  weste:.

Etymology 3
From wasten:, from  waster:, of  origin, from  *undefined:, possibly from  vasto: and  *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with wuostjan:,  westan:.

Derived terms

 * affirmative waste
 * ameliorative waste
 * go to waste
 * lay waste
 * lie waste
 * nonwasted
 * nonwasting
 * permissive waste
 * run to waste
 * unwasted
 * voluntary waste
 * wasteland
 * wasteness
 * wastrife

Derived terms

 * ameliorative waste
 * cotton waste
 * industrial waste
 * nuclear waste
 * permissive waste
 * radioactive waste
 * rock waste
 * silk waste


 * toxic waste
 * trade waste
 * voluntary waste
 * wasteful
 * wasteless
 * waste of space
 * waste of time
 * wasty

Derived terms

 * get wasted
 * wastage
 * waste breath
 * waster
 * waste time
 * wastingly


 * wastery
 * wastethrift
 * wastrel
 * wasty

Noun

 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Italian: distesa desolata


 * Japanese: 荒れ地
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swedish: ödemark


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: verkwisting, verspilling
 * Finnish: hukka, jätös
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 無駄使い,
 * Russian: растрата, излишняя трата
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ana-caitheamh
 * Swedish: spill


 * Dutch: wegkwijning, verval
 * French: dégradation, dégénération
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Swedish: förfall


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: jäte, jätös
 * French: ordures, f, pl, déchets, m, pl
 * German:
 * Hebrew:


 * Italian:, , (garbage)
 * Japanese: ゴミ (gomi)
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian: otpad, smeće
 * Swedish: skräp, avfall


 * French: fèces, merde,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 糞 (fun)
 * Swedish: avföring


 * : disip-ado
 * : desechos m, pl (1), detrito (1), basura  (1)

Adjective

 * Dutch: woest, braakliggend
 * German: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:, ,


 * Japanese: 荒れた (areta)
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàs
 * Swedish: öde


 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Italian:, di , di


 * Japanese: 無駄な (muda-na)
 * Swedish: överflödig


 * German:
 * Italian:, , non


 * Japanese: 不必要な (fuhitsuyō-na)
 * Swedish: överflödig

Verb

 * Asturian: españar
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 潰す (tsubusu)
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swedish: ödelägga, föröda


 * Dutch: doen wegkwijnen
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * Italian: ,
 * Swedish: förfalla


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: verspillen, verkwisten, vermorsen, verdoen, verklungelen
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 無駄にする (muda-ni-suru), ふいにする (fui-ni-suru)


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, транжирить , расточать
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: förspilla, förslösa
 * Telugu: వృధా చేయు (vRdhaa chEyu)
 * Turkish: harcamak


 * Dutch: koud maken
 * Finnish: kylvää tuhoa, tuhota
 * French:
 * Italian:, ,


 * Romanian: a ucide
 * Russian: грохать, грохнуть , укокошить , кокнуть , замочить
 * Swedish: spilla, förspilla


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish: föröda, försvaga