Etymology : Middle English waste, wast; in sense 1, from Old North French wast, from wast, adjective, desolate, waste, from Latin vastus; in other senses, from Middle English wasten to waste; more at VAST
Pronunciation : 'wAst
Function : noun
Date : 13th century
1. squandering, misuse, disuse; destruction, ruin, loss; desolation, wasteland; desert; refuse, rubbish, garbage; sewage. squander, misspend, misemploy; throw away; destroy, spoil; weaken, impoverish; consume; dwindle away; wither; murder (Slang). useless, leftover, unused; pertaining to rubbish; pertaining to animal waste; desolate, barren; desert; destroyed.
2. to destro.
3. to kill, to beat up. waste\waste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. wasted; p. pr. & vb. n. wasting.] [oe. wasten, of. waster, guaster, gaster, f. gâter to spoil, l. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr. vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but influenced by a kindred german word; cf. ohg. wuosten, g. wüsten, as. wēstan. see:
waste, a.].
4. to bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted, art made a mirror to behold my plight. the tiber insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
5. to wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. xiv.
6. o, were i able to waste it all myself, and leave ye none! here condemned to waste eternal days in woe and pain. wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.
7. 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. the younger son gathered all together, and wasted his substance with riotous living. v.
8. full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
9. (law) to damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
10. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
11. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
12. Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
13. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
14. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
15. 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.
16. To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
17. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
18. To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
25. Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea. useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources" reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean" get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree".
26. 1. If you waste something such as time, money, or energy, you use too much of it doing something that is not important or necessary, or is unlikely to succeed. There could be many reasons and he was not going to waste time speculating on them I resolved not to waste money on a hotel The system wastes a large amount of water. Waste is also a noun. It is a waste of time going to the doctor with most mild complaints I think that is a total waste of money.
27. Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it. The packets are measured to reduce waste I hate waste.
28. Waste is material which has been used and is no longer wanted, for example because the valuable or useful part of it has been taken out. Congress passed a law that regulates the disposal of waste Up to 10 million tonnes of toxic wastes are produced every year in the UK. the process of eliminating body waste.
29. If you waste an opportunity for something, you do not take advantage of it when it is available. Let's not waste an opportunity to see:
the children It was a wasted opportunity.
30. Waste land is land, especially in or near a city, which is not used or looked after by anyone, and so is covered by wild plants and rubbish. Yarrow can be found growing wild in fields and on waste ground.
31. Wastes are a large area of land, for example a desert, in which there are very few people, plants, or animals. the barren wastes of the Sahara. see also:
wasted.
32. If something goes to waste, it remains unused or has to be thrown away. Mexican cookery is economical, she says. Nothing goes to waste.
33. to waste no time: see:
time.
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