wastes
Meaning of wastes
verb, 3rd person present
- 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?
- (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated.
she was visibly wasting away
- devastate or ruin (a place).
he seized their cattle and wasted their country
- (of time) pass away.
the years were wasting
- 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
- unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products.
nuclear waste
hazardous industrial wastes
- a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land.
the icy wastes of the Antarctic
- damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.
Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e ) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.
Information about wastes
- The singular form of wastes is: waste.
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Hyphenation of wastes
wastes
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- wastes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
wastes synonyms
Meaning waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner:
Meaning spend (one's time or money) foolishly, wrongly, or wastefully:
Meaning use (something) in the wrong way or for the wrong purpose:
Meaning bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities on:
Meaning waste or fritter away (money, energy, or resources):
Meaning use up (resources or reserves) completely:
Meaning cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty or dry:
Meaning use up the supply or resources of:
Meaning use up (a resource):
Meaning (of wind) move creating an air current:
Meaning spend (money) freely or extravagantly:
Meaning (of a plant) become dry and shrivelled:
Meaning (of body tissue or an organ) waste away, especially as a result of the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution:
Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:
Meaning (of organic matter) rot or decompose through the action of bacteria and fungi:
Meaning (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease:
Meaning (of a plant, leaf, or flower) become limp through heat, loss of water, or disease; droop:
Meaning gradually grow faint and disappear:
Meaning mark (an item) for attention or treatment in a specified way:
Meaning become progressively worse:
Meaning decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally:
Meaning (chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose:
Meaning slowly decay or disintegrate, especially because of neglect:
Meaning (of a person, animal, or plant) lose or lack vitality; grow weak:
Meaning the squandering of money, energy, or resources:
Meaning the improper use of something:
Meaning lack of restraint in spending money or using resources:
Meaning indicate or show that one is not willing to do something:
Meaning rubbish such as paper, cans, and bottles left lying in an open or public place:
Meaning scattered pieces of rubbish or remains:
Meaning something regarded as worthless; rubbish:
Meaning old or discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value:
Meaning waste or debris of any kind:
Meaning any waste articles or discarded material:
Meaning the remnants of a liquid left in a container, together with any sediment:
Meaning things that have been left as worthless:
Meaning the parts left over after other parts have been removed, used, or destroyed:
Meaning rubbish or dregs:
Meaning waste water and excrement conveyed in sewers:
Meaning liquid waste or sewage discharged into a river or the sea:
Meaning an unpleasant or harmful odour or discharge:
Meaning waste material; refuse or litter:
Meaning rubbish or waste, especially domestic refuse:
Meaning waste material; refuse:
Meaning abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous:
Meaning an unused area of land that has become barren or overgrown:
Meaning an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region:
Meaning the state of containing nothing:
Meaning very great extent or size; immensity:
Meaning a natural state or uncultivated or uninhabited region:
wastes antonyms
Meaning protect (something, especially something of environmental or cultural importance) from harm or destruction:
Meaning (of a living organism) grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly congenial environment:
Meaning (of a child, animal, or plant) grow or develop well or vigorously:
Anagrams of wastes
Words that rhyme with wastes
Clidastes, Damastes, Dynastes, Ecclesiastes, Erastes, aftertastes, bastes, castes, cerastes, cineastes, distastes, ecclesiastes, foretastes, forwastes, hastes, heastes, impastes, lambastes, namastes, outcastes, outwastes, overhastes, pastes, pleonastes, posthastes, prepastes, pretastes, radwastes, retastes, snastes, subcastes, tastes, toothpastes, Acestes, Anarcestes, Argestes, Caenolestes, Dermestes, Estes, Herpestes, Lagorchestes, Melanolestes, Orestes, Ornitholestes, Penthestes, Thyestes, caenolestes, celestes, dermestes, gestes
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