Definition of waste

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Waste (a.) 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.

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Consume :: Consume (v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour..
Squanderer :: Squander (n.) The act of squandering; waste.
Trashy :: Trashy (superl.) Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel..
Dwindle :: Dwindle (v. i.) To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.
Waste :: Waste (v.) 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..
Wastel :: Wastel (n.) A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake..
Estrepe :: Estrepe (v. t.) To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste..
Recruit :: Recruit (v. t.) Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate..
Smartle :: Smartle (v. i.) To waste away.
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy..
Refuse :: Refuse (n.) That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction..
Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit..
Elimination :: Elimination (n.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
Fool-largesse :: Fool-largesse (n.) Foolish expenditure; waste.
Recruit :: Recruit (n.) A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement.
Wilderness :: Wilderness (v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind..
Wastethrift :: Wastethrift (n.) A spendthrift.
Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
Oasis :: Oasis (n.) A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert..
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