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- English Word Waste Definition To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
- English Word Waste Definition To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
- English Word Waste Definition To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
- English Word Waste Definition To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
- English Word Waste Definition The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
- English Word Waste Definition That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
- English Word Waste Definition That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
- English Word Waste Definition Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
- English Word Waste Definition Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
- English Word Wastebasket Definition A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
- English Word Wasteboard Definition See Washboard, 3.
- English Word Wastebook Definition A book in which rough en_to_en of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
- English Word Wasted Definition of Waste
- English Word Wasteful Definition Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
- English Word Wasteful Definition Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.
- English Word Wasteful Definition Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
- English Word Wastel Definition A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.
- English Word Wasteness Definition The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.
- English Word Wasteness Definition That which is waste; a desert; a waste.
- English Word Waster Definition One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
- English Word Waster Definition An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.
- English Word Waster Definition A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
- English Word Wastethrift Definition A spendthrift.
- English Word Wasteweir Definition An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
- English Word Wasting Definition of Waste
- English Word Wasting Definition Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
- English Word Wastor Definition A waster; a thief.
- English Word Wastorel Definition See Wastrel.
- English Word Wastrel Definition Any waste thing or substance
- English Word Wastrel Definition Waste land or common land.