waste
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(verb) waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" |
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Synonyms: rot |
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Related Words: degenerate, deteriorate, drop, gangrene, mortify, necrose, sphacelate |
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(verb) cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" |
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Synonyms: emaciate, macerate |
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Related Words: debilitate, drain, enfeeble |
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(noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly: "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipaton of natural resources" |
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Synonyms: dissipation, wastefulness |
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Related Words: activity, extravagance, lavishness, prodigality, squandering, waste of effort, waste of energy, waste of material, waste of money, waste of time |
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(verb) use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" |
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Related Words: apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize |
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(noun) (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect |
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Synonyms: permissive waste |
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Related Words: act, human action, human activity |
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(verb) run off as waste: "The water wastes back into the ocean" |
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Synonyms: run off |
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Related Words: course, flow, run |
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(verb) get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" |
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Related Words: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
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(verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends" |
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Synonyms: blow, squander |
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Related Words: burn, expend, use |
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Antonyms: conserve |
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(noun) any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" |
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Synonyms: waste material, waste matter, waste product |
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Related Words: body waste, dross, effluent, excrement, excreta, excretion, excretory product, exhaust, exhaust fumes, food waste, fumes, garbage, impurity, material, pollutant, refuse, rubbish, scraps, sewage, sewer water, sewerage, stuff, toxic industrial waste, toxic waste, trash, wastewater |
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(verb) devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" |
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Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage |
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Related Words: destroy, ruin, ruin |
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(verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" |
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Synonyms: languish, pine away |
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Related Words: weaken |
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(verb) get rid of; kill; "The mafia liquidated the informer" |
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Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate |
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Related Words: kill |
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(noun) the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities" |
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Synonyms: thriftlessness, wastefulness |
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Related Words: improvidence, shortsightedness |
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(noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" |
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Synonyms: barren, wasteland |
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Related Words: heath, heathland, wild, wilderness |
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(verb) spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" |
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Synonyms: consume, squander, ware |
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Related Words: dissipate, drop, expend, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, luxuriate, shoot, spend, wanton |
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(satellite adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" |
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Synonyms: desert, godforsaken, wild |
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(satellite adjective) disposed of as useless; "waste paper" |
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Synonyms: cast-off, discarded, junked, scrap |
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