1. Spend thoughtlessly; throw away
   "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"
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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"
   - waste material, waste matter, waste product 
2. Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
   "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"
   - wastefulness, dissipation 
3. The trait of wasting resources
   "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"
   - thriftlessness, wastefulness 
4. An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
   "the trackless wastes of the desert"
   - barren, wasteland 
5. (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
   - permissive waste

1. Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
   "waste places"
   - godforsaken, wild

Sounds like: waist

Derived forms: wastes, wasted, wasting

See also: inhospitable, wastage, waster, wasting

Type of: act, activity, apply, cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, course, debilitate, deed, degenerate, destroy, deteriorate, devolve, discard, dispose, drain, drop, employ, enfeeble, expend, feed, fling, flow, human action, human activity, improvidence, kill, material, put away, ruin, run, shortsightedness, spend, spifflicate, spiflicate, stuff, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out, use, utilise [Brit], utilize, weaken, wild, wilderness

Antonym: conserve

Encyclopedia: Waste Waste, radioactive

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• ill nature
• ill service
• ill temper
• ill turn
• ill will
• ill-advised
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• ill-assorted
• ill-being
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• ill-breeding
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• ill-conceived
• ill-considered
• ill-defined
• ill-disposed
• ill-dressed
• ill-equipped
• ill-famed