Definition of waste

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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..

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Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate..
Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay..
Ablation :: Ablation (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste.
Lock-weir :: Lock-weir (n.) A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber..
Wasteboard :: Wasteboard (n.) See Washboard, 3..
Spill :: Spill (v. t.) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood..
Corrupt :: Corrupt (v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless..
Swale :: Swale (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v..
Havoc :: Havoc (n.) Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.
Desolation :: Desolation (n.) The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
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..
Laze :: Laze (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days..
Wastrel :: Wastrel (n.) Waste land or common land.
Dilly-dally :: Dilly-dally (v. i.) To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
Cesspipe :: Cesspipe (n.) A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool..
Devastation :: Devastation (n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste..
Wild :: Wild (n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa..
Overburden :: Overburden (n.) The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.
Smartle :: Smartle (v. i.) To waste away.
Candlewaster :: Candlewaster (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
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