waste
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
law
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English wast, waste (“a waste”, noun), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast, waste (“a waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“a waste”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstaz, *wōstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”).
Inflected forms:
form: wastes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more waste
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most waste
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wastes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wasted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: waste
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: waste
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: wasted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: waste
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: wastest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: wasted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: wastedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: wastes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wasteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: wasted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: waste
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: wasted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: waste
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: wasted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: waste
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: wasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Excrement or urine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cage was littered with animal waste.
gloss: A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We went down accordingly into the waste, and began to make our toilsome and devious travel towards the eastern verge.
The pampas of Argentina and the chilly wastes of Patagonia, like the prairies and deserts of North America, were largely shunned by Spanish settlers until the 1870s.
gloss: A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A large tract of uncultivated land.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A vast expanse of water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A disused mine or part of one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That was a waste of time!
Her life seemed a waste.
'Rebel railwaymen' at Birmingham New Street refused to wear the new uniforms on the grounds that they were a "complete waste of public money".
gloss: Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Gradual loss or decay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Useless and contemptible.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: Niggas moves so waste / Please, come outside the house and show yourself / So I can say it to your face
Waste / Don't talk to me / You're so waste
gloss: To devastate; to destroy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath wasted, / Art made a myrrour to behold my plight.
The Tiber / Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
gloss: To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.
I like this place, / And willingly could waste my time in it.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
E. Kay (1822-1897), afterwards Lord Justice of Appeal, had rooms on the same staircase as myself, and we wasted a great deal of time together, both in term and in my second summer vacation. .
gloss: To kill; to murder.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness
Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.
gloss: To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […]The barrell of meale shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oile faile, vntill the day that the Lord sendeth raine vpon the earth.
gloss: To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
pos: verb
Synonyms: top
duppy
Related words: Waste in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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