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waste

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1. waste - Noun

2. waste - Adjective

3. waste - Verb

5. waste - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.

To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.

That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.

That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.

Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn't change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keeps you very busy doing nothing. Source: Internet

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee

Why do you increase your bonds? Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help and do not find it. This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits. Isaac the Syrian

Haste makes waste. English Proverb

Waste makes want. Hindi Proverb

If you try to cleanse others - like soap, you will waste away in the process! Liberia Proverb

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