DICTOMETER

WASTES

1. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   • Waste material
   • Waste matter
   • Waste product
   Definitions:
   • any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
   Examples:
   • They collect the waste once a week
   • Much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   • Wastefulness
   • Dissipation
   Definitions:
   • useless or profitless activity
   • using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
   Examples:
   • If the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste
   • Mindless dissipation of natural resources
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Thriftlessness
   • Waste
   • Wastefulness
   Definitions:
   • the trait of wasting resources
   Examples:
   • A life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
   • The wastefulness of missed opportunities
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Barren
   • Waste
   • Wasteland
   Definitions:
   • an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
   Examples:
   • The barrens of central Africa
   • The trackless wastes of the desert
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   • Permissive waste
   Definitions:
   • (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   • Blow
   • Squander
   Definitions:
   • spend thoughtlessly
   • throw away
   Examples:
   • He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
   • You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
   Antonyms:
   conserve, husband, economize, economise
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   Definitions:
   • use inefficiently or inappropriately
   Examples:
   • Waste heat
   • Waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   Definitions:
   • get rid of
   Examples:
   • We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   • Run off
   Definitions:
   • run off as waste
   Examples:
   • The water wastes back into the ocean
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Neutralize
   • Neutralise
   • Liquidate
   • Waste
   • Knock off
   • Do in
   Definitions:
   • get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
   Examples:
   • The mafia liquidated the informer
   • The double agent was neutralized
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Consume
   • Squander
   • Waste
   • Ware
   Definitions:
   • spend extravagantly
   Examples:
   • Waste not, want not
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Pine away
   • Waste
   • Languish
   Definitions:
   • lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
   Examples:
   • After her husband died, she just pined away
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Waste
   • Emaciate
   • Macerate
   Definitions:
   • cause to grow thin or weak
   Examples:
   • The treatment emaciated him
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Lay waste to
   • Waste
   • Devastate
   • Desolate
   • Ravage
   • Scourge
   Definitions:
   • cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
   Examples:
   • The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Waste
    • Rot
    Definitions:
    • become physically weaker
    Examples:
    • Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world