| Sounds | wey'st | |
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| Rhymes | aftertaste ... waist: 25 rhymes with eyst... | |
| Meaning | Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate. | |
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| Example | "waste places" | |
| Synonyms | godforsaken, wild | |
| Broader | inhospitable | unfavorable to life or growth |
| Spanish | desértico, desierto, desolado | |
| Catalan | abandonat, desert, desolat | |
| Nouns | waste | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation |
| Meaning | useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly. | |
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| Example | "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste" | |
| Synonyms | wastefulness, dissipation | |
| Narrower | boondoggle | Work of little or no value done merely to look busy |
| extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, highlife, high life | excessive spending / spending | |
| squandering | spending resources lavishly and wastefully | |
| waste of effort, waste of energy | A useless effort | |
| waste of material | A useless consumption of material | |
| waste of money | money spent for inadequate return | |
| waste of time | The devotion of time to a useless activity | |
| Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
| Spanish | derroche, despilfarro, dilapidación, disipación | |
| Catalan | balafiament, dissipació, malbaratament | |
| Verbs | waste | spend extravagantly |
| waste | use inefficiently or inappropriately | |
| waste | spend thoughtlessly | |
| Meaning | The trait of wasting resources. | |
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| Synonyms | thriftlessness, wastefulness | |
| Broader | improvidence, shortsightedness | A lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources |
| Spanish | derroche, despilfarro, gasto, prodigalidad | |
| Catalan | balafiament, dilapidació, malbaratament | |
| Verbs | waste | use inefficiently or inappropriately |
| waste | spend thoughtlessly | |
| Meaning | An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation. | |
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| Example | "the trackless wastes of the desert" | |
| Synonyms | barren, wasteland | |
| Narrower | heath, heathland | A tract of level wasteland |
| Broader | wilderness, wild | A wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition |
| Spanish | baldío, desierto, yermo | |
| Catalan | erm, terra erma | |
| Adjectives | waste | located in a dismal or remote area |
| Meaning | (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect. | |
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| Synonym | permissive waste | |
| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Broader | act, deed, human action, human activity | Something that people do or cause to happen |
| Meaning | spend thoughtlessly; throw away. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends" | |
| Synonyms | blow, squander | |
| Narrower | burn | spend (significant amounts of money) |
| Broader | use, expend | use up, consume fully |
| Opposite | conserve, husband, economize, economise | Use cautiously and frugally |
| Similar to | blow | spend lavishly or wastefully on |
| Spanish | arrojar, desgastar, desperdiciar, malgastar | |
| Catalan | desgastar, gastar | |
| Nouns | waste | useless or profitless activity |
| waste | the trait of wasting resources | |
| waster | someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently | |
| Meaning | Use inefficiently or inappropriately. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
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| Broader | use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ | put into service |
| Spanish | malgastar | |
| Nouns | waste | useless or profitless activity |
| waste | the trait of wasting resources | |
| Meaning | Get rid of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" | |
| Broader | discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away | throw or cast away |
| Spanish | expulsar, tirar | |
| Nouns | waste | any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted |
| Meaning | run off as waste. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Example | "The water wastes back into the ocean" | |
| Synonym | run off | |
| Broader | run, flow, feed, course | Move along, of liquids / liquids |
| Spanish | correr libre, derrochar, rebalsarse | |
| Nouns | waste | any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted |
| Meaning | Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | They want to waste the prisoners | |
| Synonyms | neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, knock off, do in | |
| Broader | kill | Cause to die |
| Spanish | liquidar, neutralizar | |
| Catalan | liquidar | |
| Meaning | spend extravagantly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "waste not, want not" | |
| Synonyms | consume, squander, ware | |
| Narrower | drink, tope | drink excessive amounts of alcohol |
| fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away | spend frivolously and unwisely | |
| lavish, shower | expend profusely | |
| luxuriate, wanton | Become extravagant | |
| overspend | spend at a high rate | |
| splurge, fling | indulge oneself | |
| Broader | spend, expend, drop | pay out |
| Spanish | consumir, derrochar, gastar, ingerir, malgastar | |
| Catalan | consumir, dilapidar, ingerir | |
| Nouns | waste | useless or profitless activity |
| waster | someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently | |
| Meaning | Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | pine away, languish | |
| Broader | weaken | Become weaker |
| Spanish | languidecer | |
| Catalan | llanguir | |
| Nouns | wastage | the process of wasting |
| Meaning | Cause to grow thin or weak. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | emaciate, macerate | |
| Cause to | emaciate | Grow weak and thin or waste away physically |
| Broader | enfeeble, debilitate, drain | make weak |
| Spanish | demacrarse, demacrar, macerar | |
| Catalan | demacrar-se | |
| Nouns | wastage | the process of wasting |
| wasting | any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | |
| Meaning | Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" | |
| Synonyms | lay waste to, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge | |
| Narrower | ruin | Reduce to ruins |
| Broader | destroy, ruin | Destroy completely |
| Spanish | arrasar, asolar, desgastar, desolar, destrozar, destruir, devastar, gastar | |
| Catalan | arrasar, assolar, desgastar, destrossar, devastar, gastar | |
| Nouns | waster | a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to |
| Meaning | Become physically weaker. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonym | rot | |
| Narrower | necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate | Undergo necrosis |
| Broader | devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate | Grow worse |
| Spanish | corromperse, descomponerse, pudrirse | |
| Catalan | corrompre's, descompondre's, podrir-se | |
| Nouns | wastage | the process of wasting |
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