Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of waste is as below...

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction..

Repair :: Repair (n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city..

Prodigality :: Prodigality (n.) Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony..

Dross :: Dross (n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.

Cesspipe :: Cesspipe (n.) A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool..

Waste :: Waste (v.) 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..

Ravage :: Ravage (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time..

Wash :: Wash (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment..

Corrupt :: Corrupt (v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless..

Waste :: Waste (v.) 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..

Tret :: Tret (n.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted..

Dissipate :: Dissipate (v. t.) To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.

Shack :: Shack (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn..

Wastrel :: Wastrel (n.) Waste land or common land.

Harry :: Harry (v. i.) To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.

Ablation :: Ablation (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste.

Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation..

Embezzle :: Embezzle (v. t.) To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.

Dawdle :: Dawdle (v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

Random Fonts

Most Popular