WASTE — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
waste
Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly.
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- If the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste.
- Mindless dissipation of natural resources.
(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect.
The trait of wasting resources.
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- A life characterized by thriftlessness and waste.
- The wastefulness of missed opportunities.
An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.
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- The barrens of central Africa.
- The trackless wastes of the desert.
Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted.
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- They collect the waste once a week.
- Much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers.
Waste away.
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- Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world.
Devastate or ravage.
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- The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion.
Cause to grow thin or weak.
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- The treatment emaciated him.
Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief.
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- After her husband died, she just pined away.
Spend extravagantly.
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- Waste not, want not.
Use inefficiently or inappropriately.
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- Waste heat.
- Waste a joke on an unappreciative audience.
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.
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- The mafia liquidated the informer.
- The double agent was neutralized.
Run off as waste.
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- The water wastes back into the ocean.
Get rid of.
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- We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer.
Spend thoughtlessly; throw away.
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- He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends.
- You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree.
Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate.
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- A desert island.
- A godforsaken wilderness crossroads.
- A wild stretch of land.
- Waste places.
Disposed of as useless.
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- Waste paper.
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