waste

to use carelessly; lose; squander: It’s not good to waste food.
Not to be confused with:waist – the narrow middle part of an object: She wore a sash at her waist.

waste

W0009500 (wāst)v. wast·ed, wast·ing, wastes v.tr.1. To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.2. To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble: Disease wasted his body.3. To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose: waste an opportunity.4. a. To destroy completely: The invaders wasted the village.b. Slang To kill; murder.v.intr.1. To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor; become weak or enfeebled: wasting away from an illness.2. To pass without being put to use: Time is wasting.n.1. The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted: a waste of talent; gone to waste.2. A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.3. A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.4. a. An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product: industrial wastes.b. Something, such as steam, that escapes without being used.5. Garbage; trash.6. The undigested residue of food eliminated from the body; excrement.adj.1. Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless: waste trimmings.2. Used as a conveyance or container for refuse: a waste bin.3. Excreted from the body: waste matter.Idiom: waste (one's) breath To gain or accomplish nothing by speaking.

[Middle English wasten, from Old North French waster, from Latin vāstāre, to make empty, from vāstus, empty; see euə- in Indo-European roots.]Synonyms: waste, blow¹, dissipate, fritter¹, squander
These verbs mean to spend or expend without restraint and often to no avail: wasted my inheritance; blew a fortune at the casino; dissipated their energies in pointless argument; frittering away her entire allowance; squandered his talent on writing jingles.Antonym: save¹

waste

(weɪst) vb1. (tr) to use, consume, or expend thoughtlessly, carelessly, or to no avail2. (tr) to fail to take advantage of: to waste an opportunity. 3. (Medicine) (when: intr, often foll by away) to lose or cause to lose bodily strength, health, etc4. to exhaust or become exhausted5. (tr) to ravage6. (tr) informal to murder or kill: I want that guy wasted by tomorrow. n7. the act of wasting or state of being wasted8. a failure to take advantage of something9. anything unused or not used to full advantage10. anything or anyone rejected as useless, worthless, or in excess of what is required11. garbage, rubbish, or trash12. (Physical Geography) (usually plural) a land or region that is wild or uncultivated13. (Physical Geography) obsolete a land or region that is devastated or ruined14. (Physiology) physiol a. the useless products of metabolismb. indigestible food residue15. (Physical Geography) disintegrated rock material resulting from erosion16. (Law) law reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect, esp by a life-tenantadj17. rejected as useless, unwanted, or worthless18. produced in excess of what is required19. not cultivated, inhabited, or productive: waste land. 20. (Physiology) a. of or denoting the useless products of metabolismb. of or denoting indigestible food residue21. destroyed, devastated, or ruined22. designed to contain or convey waste products23. lay waste to devastate or destroy[C13: from Anglo-French waster, from Latin vastāre to lay waste, from vastus empty] ˈwastable adj

waste

(weɪst)

v. wast•ed, wast•ing,
n., adj. v.t. 1. to consume or use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste natural resources. 2. to fail or neglect to use. 3. to destroy or consume gradually; wear away: waves wasting the rocky shore. 4. to wear down or reduce in bodily substance or strength; emaciate; enfeeble: to be wasted by disease. 5. to devastate or ruin: a country wasted by a long futile war. 6. Slang. to kill or murder. v.i. 7. to be consumed or employed uselessly or inadequately. 8. to become gradually used up or worn away. 9. to become physically worn, esp. emaciated or enfeebled. 10. to diminish gradually, as wealth or power; dwindle. n. 11. useless consumption or expenditure; an act or instance of wasting: a complete waste of my time. 12. neglect, instead of use. 13. gradual impairment or decay. 14. devastation or ruin. 15. an area devastated or ruined: a blackened waste where timberland had stood. 16. anything unused, inadequately used, or unproductive. 17. desolate country, as desert. 18. something left over or superfluous: salvaging factory wastes. 19. material derived by mechanical and chemical disintegration of rock, as the detritus transported by streams, rivers, etc. 20. garbage; refuse. 21. wastes, excrement. adj. 22. not used or in use: waste energy. 23. (of land, regions, etc.) wild; desolate. 24. (of regions, towns, etc.) in a state of desolation and ruin. 25. left over; superfluous: to utilize the waste products of manufacture. 26. rejected as useless or worthless; refuse. 27. Physiol. pertaining to material unused by or unusable to the organism. 28. designed or used to receive or carry away useless material (often in combination): a waste pipe. Idioms: 1. go to waste, to be wasted, rather than used or consumed. 2. lay waste, to devastate; destroy. [1150–1200; Middle English < Old North French waster (Old French g(u)aster) < Latin vāstāre, derivative of vāstus desolate; Old North French w-, Old French gu- by influence of c. Frankish *wōsti desolate (c. Old High German wuosti)] wast′a•ble, adj.

waste

wastrel - Pronounced WAYS-trul, it is either a wasteful or worthless person, derived from the verb "waste," from Latin vastus, "desert, waste."
bratwurst - From German Brat, "meat without waste," and Wurst, "sausage."
eat your heart out - Goes back as far as Diogenes Laertius, who credited Pythagoras with saying "Do not eat your heart"—meaning "Don't waste your life worrying about something"—2,500 years ago.
sullage - Waste from household sinks, showers, and baths—but not toilets; it also figuratively means filth or refuse.

Waste

In delay we waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day —William Shakespeare
Wasted his wealth like spittle —Stephen Vincent Benet
Wasted more money in a day than a Boeing 747 full of proverbial welfare queens could have squandered in a century —Hodding Carter III, Wall Street Journal March 30, 1986
Carter’s simile referred to new defense spending policies.
Wasteful as drunkenness at undue times —Robert Browning
Wasteful as regrets —Anon

waist

waste

These words are both pronounced /weɪst/.

1. 'waist'

Waist is a noun. Your waist is the middle part of your body, above your hips.

She tied a belt around her waist.He was naked from the waist up.2. 'waste' used as a verb

Waste is most commonly a verb. If you waste time, money, or energy, you use it on something that is unimportant or unnecessary.

You're wasting time asking him to help he won't.We wasted money on a computer that didn't work.3. 'waste' used as a noun

You can also say that something is a waste of time, money, or energy.

I'll never do that again. It's a waste of time.It's a waste of money buying a new washing machine when we could repair the old one.

Waste also refers to material that has been used and is no longer wanted, for example because the useful part has been removed.

The river was full of industrial waste.Your kidneys help to remove waste from your body.

waste

Past participle: wasted
Gerund: wasting

Imperative
waste
waste

Present
I waste
you waste
he/she/it wastes
we waste
you waste
they waste

Preterite
I wasted
you wasted
he/she/it wasted
we wasted
you wasted
they wasted

Present Continuous
I am wasting
you are wasting
he/she/it is wasting
we are wasting
you are wasting
they are wasting

Present Perfect
I have wasted
you have wasted
he/she/it has wasted
we have wasted
you have wasted
they have wasted

Past Continuous
I was wasting
you were wasting
he/she/it was wasting
we were wasting
you were wasting
they were wasting

Past Perfect
I had wasted
you had wasted
he/she/it had wasted
we had wasted
you had wasted
they had wasted

Future
I will waste
you will waste
he/she/it will waste
we will waste
you will waste
they will waste

Future Perfect
I will have wasted
you will have wasted
he/she/it will have wasted
we will have wasted
you will have wasted
they will have wasted

Future Continuous
I will be wasting
you will be wasting
he/she/it will be wasting
we will be wasting
you will be wasting
they will be wasting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been wasting
you have been wasting
he/she/it has been wasting
we have been wasting
you have been wasting
they have been wasting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been wasting
you will have been wasting
he/she/it will have been wasting
we will have been wasting
you will have been wasting
they will have been wasting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been wasting
you had been wasting
he/she/it had been wasting
we had been wasting
you had been wasting
they had been wasting

Conditional
I would waste
you would waste
he/she/it would waste
we would waste
you would waste
they would waste

Past Conditional
I would have wasted
you would have wasted
he/she/it would have wasted
we would have wasted
you would have wasted
they would have wasted

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	waste - 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 material, waste matter, waste productmaterial, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"dross, impurity - worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water"exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes - gases ejected from an engine as waste productsbody waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product, excretion - waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the bodyfilth, skank, crud - any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasantsewage, sewerage - waste matter carried away in sewers or drainseffluent, sewer water, wastewater - water mixed with waste matterfood waste, garbage, refuse, scraps - food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)pollutant - waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soilrubbish, trash, scrap - worthless material that is to be disposed ofslop - (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand; "she carried out the sink slops"toxic industrial waste, toxic waste - poisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means)
	2.	waste - 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"wastefulness, dissipationboondoggle - work of little or no value done merely to look busyactivity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity"waste of effort, waste of energy - a useless effortwaste of material - a useless consumption of materialwaste of money - money spent for inadequate return; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money"waste of time - the devotion of time to a useless activity; "the waste of time could prove fatal"high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality, extravagance - excessive spendingsquandering - spending resources lavishly and wastefully; "more wasteful than the squandering of time"
	3.	waste - the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"thriftlessness, wastefulnessimprovidence, shortsightedness - a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources
	4.	waste - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"barren, wastelandheathland, heath - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetationwild, wilderness - a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"
	5.	waste - (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglectpermissive wastehuman action, human activity, act, deed - something that people do or cause to happenlaw, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
Verb	1.	waste - spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"squander, blowexpend, use - use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions"blow - spend lavishly or wastefully on; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater"burn - spend (significant amounts of money); "He has money to burn"economize, husband, economise, conserve - use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"
	2.	waste - use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize - put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"
	3.	waste - get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"chuck out, discard, cast aside, cast away, throw away, toss away, toss out, put away, throw out, cast out, dispose, fling, toss - throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"
	4.	waste - run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"run offcourse, flow, run, feed - move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
	5.	waste - get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralizekill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
	6.	waste - spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"ware, squander, consumefool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, fool, dissipate, shoot - spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"luxuriate, wanton - become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriouslylavish, shower - expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise"overspend - spend at a high rateexpend, spend, drop - pay out; "spend money"splurge, fling - indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV"
	7.	waste - lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"languish, pine awayweaken - become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"
	8.	waste - cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"emaciate, maceratedebilitate, enfeeble, drain - make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"
	9.	waste - cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, desolateruin, destroy - destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"ruin - reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war"
	10.	waste - become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"rotdegenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop - grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"gangrene, necrose, sphacelate, mortify - undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
Adj.	1.	waste - located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"godforsaken, wildinhospitable - unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"

waste

verb1. squander, throw away, blow (slang), run through, lavish, misuse, dissipate, fritter away, frivol away (informal) We can't afford to waste money on another holiday.
squander save, protect, preserve, conserve, economize, husband2. wear out, wither, deplete, debilitate, drain, undermine, exhaust, disable, consume, gnaw, eat away, corrode, enfeeble, sap the strength of, emaciate a cruel disease which wastes the musclesnoun1. squandering, misuse, loss, expenditure, extravagance, frittering away, lost opportunity, dissipation, wastefulness, misapplication, prodigality, unthriftiness The whole project is a complete waste of time and resources.
squandering saving, economy, thrift, good housekeeping, frugality2. rubbish, refuse, debris, sweepings, scrap, litter, garbage, trash, leftovers, offal, dross, dregs, leavings, offscourings This country produces 10 million tonnes of toxic waste every year.plural noun desert, wilds, wilderness, void, solitude, wasteland the barren wastes of the Saharaadjective1. unwanted, useless, worthless, unused, leftover, superfluous, unusable, supernumerary suitable locations for the disposal of waste products
unwanted needed, necessary, utilized2. uncultivated, wild, bare, barren, empty, devastated, dismal, dreary, desolate, unproductive, uninhabited Yarrow can be found growing wild on waste ground.
uncultivated cultivated, developed, productive, in use, fruitful, arable, verdant, habitablelay something waste devastate, destroy, ruin, spoil, total (slang), sack, undo, trash (slang), ravage, raze, despoil, wreak havoc upon, depredate (rare) The war has laid waste large regions of the country.waste away decline, dwindle, wither, perish, sink, fade, crumble, decay, wane, ebb, wear out, atrophy People dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.Proverbs
"It's no use making shoes for geese"Usage: Waste and wastage are to some extent interchangeable, but many people think that wastage should not be used to refer to loss resulting from human carelessness, inefficiency, etc.: a waste (not a wastage) of time, money, effort, etc.

waste

verb1. To use up foolishly or needlessly:consume, devour, dissipate, squander.2. To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly:consume, dissipate, fool away, fritter away, riot away, squander, throw away, trifle away.Slang: blow.3. To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work:dawdle (away), fiddle away, idle (away), kill, trifle away, while (away), wile (away).4. To lose strength or power.Also used with away:decline, degenerate, deteriorate, fade, fail, flag, languish, sink, wane, weaken.Informal: fizzle (out).Idioms: go downhill, hit the skids.5. To fail to take advantage of:lose, miss.Idioms: let slip, let slip through one's fingers, lose out on.6. To do away with completely and destructively:consume, devour, eat (up), swallow (up).7. To destroy completely as or as if by conquering:desolate, devastate, ravage.Idiom: lay waste.8. Slang. To cause the death of:carry off, cut down, cut off, destroy, dispatch, finish (off), kill, slay.Slang: zap.Idioms: put an end to, put to sleep.9. Slang. To take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully:destroy, finish (off), kill, liquidate, murder, slay.Informal: put away.Slang: bump off, do in, knock off, off, rub out, wipe out, zap.noun1. Excessive or imprudent expenditure:extravagance, extravagancy, lavishness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, squander, wastefulness.2. A tract of unproductive land:badlands, barren (often used in plural), desert, wasteland, wilderness.

Translations

浪费荒地废料

waste

(weist) verb to fail to use (something) fully or in the correct or most useful way. You're wasting my time with all these stupid questions.浪费 noun1. material which is or has been made useless. industrial waste from the factories; (also adjective) waste material.废料2. (the) act of wasting. That was a waste of an opportunity.浪费3. a huge stretch of unused or infertile land, or of water, desert, ice etc. the Arctic wastes.荒地ˈwastage (-tidʒ) noun loss by wasting; the amount wasted. Of the total amount, roughly 20% was wastage. 浪费，损耗量 ˈwasteful adjective involving or causing waste. Throwing away that bread is wasteful.浪费的ˈwastefully adverb浪费地ˈwastefulness noun浪费waste paper paper which is thrown away as not being useful. Offices usually have a great deal of waste paper.废纸wastepaper basket (ˈweispeipə) a basket or other (small) container for waste paper. Put those old letters in the wastepaper basket.废纸篓waste pipe (ˈweispaip) a pipe to carry off waste material, or water from a sink etc. The kitchen waste pipe is blocked. 下水管道，排污水管 waste away to decay; to lose weight, strength and health etc. He is wasting away because he has a terrible disease. 变得衰弱（消瘦）

waste

→ 浪费zhCN

Waste

Harmful or destructive use of real property by one in rightful possession of the property.

Waste is an unreasonable or improper use of land by an individual in rightful possession of the land. A party with an interest in a parcel of land may file a civil action based on waste committed by an individual who also has an interest in the land. Such disputes may arise between life tenants and remainderpersons and landlords and tenants. The lawsuit may seek an Injunction to stop the waste, damages for the waste, or both. Actions based on waste ordinarily arise when an owner of land takes exception to the manner in which the possessor or tenant is using the land.

The four common types of waste are voluntary, permissive, ameliorating, and equitable waste. Voluntary waste is the willful destruction or carrying away of something attached to the property. In an action for voluntary waste, the plaintiff must show that the waste was caused by an affirmative act of the tenant. Such waste might occur if a life tenant (a person who possesses the land for his lifetime, after which a remainderperson takes possession) chops down all the trees on the occupied land and sells them as lumber.

Voluntary waste will also occur, for example, if the tenant of an apartment removes kitchen appliances that are attached to the apartment floors and walls. More commonly, the tenant breaks a window, damages walls or woodwork, or otherwise damages the apartment. Landlords typically protect against this type of voluntary waste by requiring a damage or security deposit from the tenant at the commencement of the lease. When the tenant vacates the apartment, the landlord inspects for waste. If the apartment has been damaged, the landlord will use part or all of the deposit for repairs. If the damage exceeds the deposit, however, the landlord may file an action seeking damages for the repairs not covered by the deposit.

Permissive waste is an injury caused by an omission, rather than an affirmative act, on the part of the tenant. This type of waste might occur, for example, if a tenant permits a house to fall into disrepair by not making reasonable maintenance repairs.

Ameliorating waste is an alteration in the physical characteristics of the premises by an unauthorized act of the tenant that increases the value of the property. For example, a tenant might make improvements that increase the value of the property, such as remodeling a bathroom. Generally, a tenant is not held liable if she commits this type of waste.

Equitable waste is a harm to the reversionary interest in land that is inconsistent with fruitful use. This Cause of Action is recognized only by courts of Equity and is not regarded as legal waste in courts of law. For example, if the life tenant begins to cut down immature trees, the remainderperson, who will someday take possession of the property, may file an action in equity seeking an injunction to stop the cutting. The remainderperson would argue that the cutting imperils the productive use of the land in the future, because the value of the land after the immature trees have been cut would be decreased.

In an action for waste, a plaintiff commonly will seek damages for acts that have already occurred and request an injunction against future acts. A court will order an injunction if it finds that irreparable harm will occur and that the legal remedy would be inadequate, unless otherwise provided by statute. Certain laws provide for temporary relief if acts of waste are either threatened or committed.

The ordinary measure of damages for waste is the diminution in value of the property to the nonpossessor as a result of the acts of the possessor. This is frequently difficult to measure, particularly in situations where a significant period of time will elapse before the plaintiff is entitled to actual possession.

Cross-references

Landlord and Tenant; Life Estate.

waste

n. 1) any damage to real property by a tenant which lessens its value to the landlord, owner or future owner. An owner can sue for damages for waste, terminate a lease of one committing waste, and/or obtain an injunction against further waste. 2) garbage, which may include poisonous effluents.

WASTE. A spoil or destruction houses, gardens, trees, or other corporeal hereditaments, to the disherison of him that hath the remainder or reversion in fee simple or fee tail 2 Bl. Comm. 281.
2. The doctrine of waste is somewhat different in this country from what it is in England. It is adapted to our circumstances. 3 Yeates, R. 261; 4 Kent, Com. 76; Walk. Intr. 278; 7 John. Rep. 227; 2 Hayw. R. 339; 2 Hayw. R. 110; 6 Munf. R. 134; 1 Rand. Rep. 258; 6 Yerg. Rep. 334. Waste is either voluntary or permissive.
3.-Sec. 1. Voluntary waste. A voluntary waste is an act of commission, as tearing down a house. This kind of waste is committed in houses, in timber, and in land. It is committed in houses by removing wainscots, floors, benches, furnaces, window-glass, windows, doors, shelves, and other things once fixed to the freehold, although they may have been erected by the lessee himself, unless they were erected for the purposes of trade. See Fixtures; Bac. Ab. Waste, C 6. And this kind of waste may take place not only in pulling down houses, or parts of them, but also in changing their forms; as, if the tenant pull down a house and erect a new one in the place, whether it be larger or smaller than the first; 2 Roll. Ab. 815, 1. 33; or convert a parlor into a stable; or a grist-mill into a fulling-mill; 2 Roll. Abr. 814, 815; or turn two rooms into one. 2 Roll. Ab. 815, 1. 37. The building of a house where there was none before is said to be a waste; Co. Litt. 53, a; and taking it down after it is built, is a waste. Com. Dig. Waste, D 2. It is a general rule that when a lessee has annexed anything to the freehold during the term, and afterwards takes it away, it is waste. 3 East, 51. This principle is established in the French law. Lois des Bit. part. 2,
3, art. 1; 18 Toull. n. 457.
4. But at a very early period several exceptions were attempted to be made to this rule, which were at last effectually engrafted upon it in favor of trade, and of those vessels and utensils, which are immediately subservient to the purposes of trade. Ibid.
5. This relaxation of the old rule has taken place between two descriptions of persons; that is, between the landlord and tenant, and between the tenant for life or tenant in tail and the remainder-man or reversioner.
6. As between the landlord and tenant it is now the law, that if the lessee annex any chattel to the house for the purpose of his trade, he may disunite it during the continuance of his interest, 1 H. B. 258. But this relation extends only to erections for the purposes of trade.
7. It has been decided that a tenant for years may remove cider-mills, ornamental marble chimney pieces, wainscots fixed only by screws, and such like. 2 Bl. Com. 281, note by Chitty. A tenant of a farm cannot remove buildings which he has erected for the purposes of husbandry, and the better enjoyment of the profits of the land, though he thereby leaves the premises the same as when he entered. 2 East, 88; 3 East, 51; 6 Johns., Rep. 5; 7 Mass. Rep. 433.
8. Voluntary waste may be committed on timber, and in the country from which we have borrowed our laws, the law is very strict. In Pennsylvania, however, and many of the other states, the law has applied itself to our situation, and those acts which in England would amount to waste, are not so accounted here. Stark. Ev. part 4, p. 1667, n.; 3 Yeates, 251. Where wild and uncultivated land, wholly covered with wood and timber, is leased, the lessee may fell a part of the wood and timber, so as to fit the land for cultivation, without being liable to waste, but he cannot cut down the whole so as permanently to injure the inheritance. And to what extent the wood and timber on such land may be cut down without waste, is a question of fact for the jury under the direction of the court. 7 Johns. R. 227. The tenant may cut down trees for the reparation of the houses, fences, hedges, stiles, gates, and the like; Co. Litt. 53, b; and for mixing and repairing all instruments of husbandry, as ploughs, carts, harrows, rakes, forks, &c. Wood's Inst. 344. The tenant may, when he is unrestrained by the terms of his lease, out down timber, if there be not enough dead timber. Com. Dig Waste, D 5; F. N. B. 59 M. Where the tenant, by the conditions of his lease, is entitled to cut down timber, he is restrained nevertheless from cutting down ornamental trees, or those planted for shelter; 6 Ves. 419; or to exclude objects from sight. 16 Ves. 375.
9. Windfalls are the property of the landlord, for whatever is severed by inevitable necessity, as by a tempest, or by a trespasser, and by wrong, belongs to him who has the inheritance. 3 P. Wms. 268; 11 Rep. 81, Bac. Abr. Waste, D 2.
10. Waste is frequently committed on cultivated fields, orchards, gardens, meadows, and the like. It is proper here to remark that there is an implied covenant or agreement on the part of the lessee to use a farm in a husbandman-like manner, and not to exhaust the soil by neglectful or improper tillage. 5 T. R. 373. See 6 Ves. 328. It is therefore waste to convert arable to woodland and the contrary, or meadow to arable; or meadow to orchard. Co. Lit. 53, b. Cutting down fruit trees; 2 Roll. Abr. 817, l. 30; although planted by the tenant himself, is waste; and it was held to be waste for an outgoing tenant of garden ground to plough up strawberry beds which be had bought of a former tenant when he entered. i Camp. 227.
11. It is a general rule that when lands are leased on which there are open mines of metal or coal or pits of gravel, lime, clay, brick, earth, stone, and the like, the tenant may dig out of such mines, or pits. Com. Dig. Waste, D 4. But he cannot open any new mines or pits without being guilty of waste Co. Lit. 53 b; and carrying away the soil, is waste. Com. Dig. Waste, D 4.
12.-Sec. 2. Permissive waste. Permissive waste in houses is punishable where the tenant is expressly bound to repair, or where he is so bound on an implied covenant. See 2 Esp. R. 590; 1 Esp. Rep. 277; Bac. Abr. Covenant, F. It is waste if the tenant suffer a house leased to him to remain uncovered so long that the rafters or other timbers of the house become rotten, unless the house was uncovered when the tenant took possession. Com. Dig. Waste, D 2.
13.-Sec. 3. Of remedies for waste. The ancient writ of waste has been superseded. It is usual to bring case in the nature of waste instead of the action of waste, as well for permissive as voluntary waste.
14. Some decisions have made it doubtful whether an action on the case for permissive waste can be maintained against any tenant for years. See 1 New Rep. 290; 4 Taunt. 764; 7 Taunt. 392; S. C. 1 Moore, 100; 1 Saund. 323, a, n. i. Even where the lessee covenants not to do waste, the lessor has his election to bring either an action on the case, or of, covenant, against the lessee for waste done by him during the term. 2 Bl. Rep. 1111; 2 Saund. 252, c. n. In an action on the case in the nature of waste, the plaintiff recovers only damages for the waste.
15. The latter action has this advantage over an action of waste, that it may be brought by him in reversion or remainder for life or years, as well as in fee or in tail; and the plaintiff is entitled to costs in this action, which he cannot have in an action of waste., 2 Saund. 252, n. See, on the subject in general, Woodf. Landl. & T. 217, ch. 9, s. 1; Bac. Abr. Waste; Vin. Abr. Waste; Com. Dig. Waste; Supp. to Ves. jr. 50, 325, 441; 1 Vern. R. 23, n.; 2 Saund. 252, a, n. 7, 259, n. 11; Arch. Civ. Pl. 495; 2 Sell. Pr. 234; 3 Bl. Com. 180, note by Chitty; Amer. Dig. Waste; Whart. Dig. Waste; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
As to remedies against waste by injunction, see 1 Vern. R. 23, n.; 5 P. Wms. 268, n. F; 1 Eq. Cas. Ab. 400; 6 Ves. 787, 107, 419; 8 Ves. 70; 16 Ves. 375; 2 Swanst. 251; 3 Madd. 498; Jacob's R. 70; Drew. on Inj. part 2, c. 1, p. 134. As between tenants in common, 5 Taunt. 24; 19 Ves. 159; 16 Ves. 132; 3 Bro. C. C. 622; 2 Dick. 667; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; and the article Injunction. As to remedy by writ of estrepement to prevent waste, see Estrepement; Woodf Landl. & T. 447; 2 Yeates, 281; 4 Smith's Laws of Penn. 89; 3 Bl. Com. 226. As to remedies in cases of fraud in committing waste, see Hov. Fr. ch. 7, p. 226 to 238.

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verb squander

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verb wear out

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noun squandering

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noun rubbish

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noun desert

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adj unwanted

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adj uncultivated

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phrase lay something waste

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phrase waste away

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verb to use up foolishly or needlessly

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verb to spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly

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verb to pass (time) without working or in avoiding work

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verb to lose strength or power

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verb to fail to take advantage of

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verb to do away with completely and destructively

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verb to destroy completely as or as if by conquering

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verb to cause the death of

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verb to take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully

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noun excessive or imprudent expenditure

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