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waste
v. squander, misspend, misemploy; throw away; destroy, spoil; weaken, impoverish; consume; dwindle away; wither; murder (Slang)
 
n. squandering, misuse, disuse; destruction, ruin, loss; desolation, wasteland; desert; refuse, rubbish, garbage; sewage


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WASTE
WASTE is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend protocol and software application developed by Justin Frankel at Nullsoft in 2003 that features instant messaging, chat rooms & file browsing/sharing capabilities. The name WASTE is a reference to Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49, in which it is an acronym for "We Await Silent Tristero's Empire". In the novel, W.A.S.T.E. is an underground postal service.
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Waste
Waste, rubbish, trash, garbage, or junk is unwanted or undesired material. "Waste" is the general term; though the other terms are used loosely as synonyms, they have more specific meanings: rubbish or trash are mixed household waste and including paper and packaging; food waste or garbage (North America) is kitchen and table waste; and junk or scrap is metallic or industrial material. There are other categories of waste as well: sewage, ash, manure, and plant materials from garden operations, including grass cuttings, fallen leaves, and pruned branches.
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waste
Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) waste material, waste matter, waste product
(hypernym) material, stuff
(hyponym) impurity, dross
2. 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"
(synonym) wastefulness, dissipation
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) boondoggle
(derivation) blow, squander
3. the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
(synonym) thriftlessness, wastefulness
(hypernym) improvidence, shortsightedness
(derivation) blow, squander
4. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
(synonym) barren, wasteland
(hypernym) wilderness, wild
(hyponym) heath, heathland
5. (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
(synonym) permissive waste
(hypernym) act, human action, human activity
(classification) law, jurisprudence
Verb
1. spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
(synonym) blow, squander
(antonym) conserve, husband, economize, economise
(hypernym) use, expend
(hyponym) burn
(verb-group) blow
(derivation) thriftlessness, wastefulness
2. use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
(hypernym) use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
(derivation) thriftlessness, wastefulness
3. get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
(hypernym) discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away
(derivation) waste material, waste matter, waste product
4. run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"
(synonym) run off
(hypernym) run, flow, feed, course
(derivation) waste material, waste matter, waste product
5. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
(synonym) neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, knock off, do in
(hypernym) kill
6. spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
(synonym) consume, squander, ware
(hypernym) spend, expend, drop
(hyponym) fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away
(derivation) wastefulness, dissipation
7. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
(synonym) pine away, languish
(hypernym) weaken
(derivation) wastage
8. cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
(synonym) emaciate, macerate
(hypernym) enfeeble, debilitate, drain
(cause) emaciate
(derivation) wastage
9. devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
(synonym) lay waste to, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge
(hypernym) destroy, ruin
(hyponym) ruin
(derivation) destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter
10. waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
(synonym) rot
(hypernym) devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
(hyponym) necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate
(derivation) wastage
Adjective
1. disposed of as useless; "waste paper"
(synonym) cast-off(a), discarded, junked, scrap(a)
(similar) useless
2. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
(synonym) desert, godforsaken, wild
(similar) inhospitable


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WASTES
SPRECHI. SCARTI. DESERTI. DEVASTA. ROVINA. SPRECA. UCCIDE. SFRASI [CINEMA]

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