DEF: an unnecessary or wrong use of money, substances, time, energy, abilities, etc.
EX: 1. Do not waste foods, there are many hungry people in the world.
2. You are wasting your time making that table, it costs you more to make it than to buy it from the store.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
waste (noun)1.
a) a sparsely settled or barren region - desert
b) uncultivated land
c) a broad and empty expanse (as of water)
2.
the act or an instance of the state of being - wasting wasted
3.
a) loss through breaking down of bodily tissue
b) gradual loss or decrease by use, wear, or decay
4.
a) damaged, defective, or superfluous material produced by a manufacturing process as
(1) material rejected during a textile manufacturing process and used usually for wiping away dirt and oil - cotton waste
(2) - scrap
(3) an unwanted by-product of a manufacturing process, chemical laboratory, or nuclear reactor - toxic waste hazardous waste nuclear waste
b) refuse from places of human or animal habitation as
(1) - garbage rubbish
(2) - excrement often used in plural
(3) - sewage
c) material derived by mechanical and chemical weathering of the land and moved down sloping surfaces or carried by streams to the sea
transitive verb
1.
to lay waste , especially to damage or destroy gradually and progressively - reclaiming land wasted by strip-mining
2.
to cause to shrink in physical bulk or strength - emaciate enfeeble a body wasted by disease
3.
to wear away or diminish gradually - consume
4.
a) to spend or use carelessly - squander waste valuable resources
b) to allow to be used inefficiently or become dissipated - a writer wasting her talent
5.
intransitive verb
- kill , also to injure severely
1.
to lose weight, strength, or vitality - often used with away was wasting away from illness
2.
a) to become diminished in bulk or substance
b) to become consumed
3.
to spend money or consume property extravagantly or improvidently ravage
1.
a) (1) being wild and uninhabited - desolate
(2) - arid empty
b) not cultivated not productive
2.
being in a ruined or devastated condition
3.
a) discarded as worthless, defective, or of no use - refuse waste material
b) excreted from or stored in inert form in a living body as a byproduct of vital activity - waste products
4.
serving to conduct or hold refuse material - a waste barrel , specifically carrying off superfluous water - a waste drain
5.
- wasted
