waste: значение и определения

To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.

To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble: Disease wasted his body.

To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose: waste an opportunity.

To destroy completely.

Slang To kill; murder.

To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor; become weak or enfeebled: wasting away from an illness.

To pass without being put to use: Time is wasting.

The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted: a waste of talent; gone to waste.

A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.

A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.

An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product.

Something, such as steam, that escapes without being used.

Garbage; trash.

The undigested residue of food eliminated from the body; excrement.

Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless: waste trimmings.

Used as a conveyance or container for refuse: a waste bin.

Excreted from the body: waste matter.

waste (one's) breath To gain or accomplish nothing by speaking.