Definition of waste

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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..

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Spill :: Spill (v. t.) To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste..
Decrepit :: Decrepit (a.) Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
Waste :: Waste (v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc..
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow..
Shack :: Shack (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn..
Draff :: Draff (n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices..
Gate :: Gate (n.) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
Inexhaustible :: Inexhaustible (a.) Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words..
Economical :: Economical (a.) Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.
Wash :: Wash (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc..
Waste :: Waste (v.) 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..
Scath :: Scath (v.) Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune.
Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
Dross :: Dross (n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
Moth :: Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing..
Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
Overburden :: Overburden (n.) The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.
Decrement :: Decrement (n.) The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
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