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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Overburden :: Overburden (n.) The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.
Forpine :: Forpine (v. t.) To waste away completely by suffering or torment.
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..
Estrepement :: Estrepement (n.) A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses..
Desolater :: Desolater (n.) One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste..
Ablation :: Ablation (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste.
Slattern :: Slattern (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.
Waste :: Waste (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse..
Harry :: Harry (v. i.) To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.
Estrepe :: Estrepe (v. t.) To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste..
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..
Dawdle :: Dawdle (v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning..
Stowre :: Stowing (n.) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
Emunctory :: Emunctory (n.) Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter..
Dissipated :: Dissipated (a.) Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate..
Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
Harry :: Harry (v. t.) To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land..
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..
Dissolve :: Dissolve (v. i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
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..
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