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    [wāst]
    verb
    waste (verb) · wastes (third person present) · wasted (past tense) · wasted (past participle) · wasting (present participle)
    1. use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
      "we can't afford to waste electricity" · "I don't use the car, so why should I waste precious money on it?"
      Opposite:
      conserve
      • (be wasted on)
        bestow or expend on an unappreciative recipient:
        "her small talk was wasted on this guest"
      • (be wasted)
        fail to make full or good use of:
        "we're wasted in this job"
    2. (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated:
      "she was visibly wasting away"
      • archaic
        make progressively weaker and more emaciated:
        "these symptoms wasted the patients very much"
    3. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
      informal
      kill or severely injure (someone):
      "I saw them waste the guy I worked for"
    4. literary
      devastate or ruin (a place):
      "he seized their cattle and wasted their country"
      Opposite:
      rebuild
      repair
    5. literary
      (of time) pass away; be spent:
      "the years were wasting"
    adjective
    waste (adjective)
    1. (of a material, substance, or byproduct) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process:
      "ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly" · "plants produce oxygen as a waste product"
      Opposite:
      useful
    2. (of an area of land, typically in a city or town) not used, cultivated, or built on:
      "a patch of waste ground"
      Opposite:
      cultivated
    noun
    waste (noun) · wastes (plural noun)
    1. an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
      "it's a waste of time trying to argue with him" · "they had learned to avoid waste"
    2. material that is not wanted; the unusable remains or byproducts of something:
      "bodily waste" · "hazardous industrial wastes"
    3. (wastes)
      a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land:
      "the icy wastes of the Antarctic"
    4. law
      damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life-tenant.
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.
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    What does it mean if something is wasted on someone?
    [VERB-ed] If you say that something is wasted on someone, you mean that there is no point giving it or telling it to them as they will not appreciate, understand, or pay any attention to it. Waste land is land, especially in or near a city, which is not used or looked after by anyone, and so is covered by wild plants and rubbish.

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    a waste of money/resources/time The meeting was a complete waste of time. All departments have been instructed to avoid waste. hazardous/radioactive/toxic waste The company was charged with illegally disposing of toxic waste. The board decided it could not waste any more time and money developing the product.

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    Waste is also a noun. Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it. The packets are measured to reduce waste. I hate waste. Waste is material which has been used and is no longer wanted, for example because the valuable or useful part of it has been taken out. Congress passed a law that regulates the disposal of waste.

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    2. Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it. [...] 3. Waste is material which has been used and is no longer wanted, for example because the valuable or useful part of it has been taken out.

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    What does it mean if you waste money?
    1. If you waste something such as time, money, or energy, you use too much of it doing something that is not important or necessary, or is unlikely to succeed. [...] 2. Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it. [...] 3.

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    As a noun, waste, meaning “desolate regions” stems from the Old English westen, meaning “a desert, wilderness.” Later, it came to imply a “useless activity,” and even later than that, “refuse matter,” or “trash.” As a verb, waste …

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