English to English adjective
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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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located in a dismal or remote area; desolate |  | Example: a desert island a godforsaken wilderness crossroads a wild stretch of land waste places
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any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted |  | Example: they collect the waste once a week much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers
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useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly |  | Example: if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste mindless dissipation of natural resources
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the trait of wasting resources |  | Example: a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste the wastefulness of missed opportunities
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an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation |  | Example: the barrens of central Africa the trackless wastes of the desert
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(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect |  | source: wordnet30
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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. |  | source: webster1913
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Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea. |  | source: webster1913 verb
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spend thoughtlessly; throw away |  | Example: He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
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use inefficiently or inappropriately |  | Example: waste heat waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
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get rid of |  | Example: We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
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run off as waste |  | Example: The water wastes back into the ocean
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get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing |  | Example: The mafia liquidated the informer the double agent was neutralized
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spend extravagantly |  | Example: waste not, want not
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lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief |  | Example: After her husband died, she just pined away
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cause to grow thin or weak |  | Example: The treatment emaciated him
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cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly |  | Example: The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
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become physically weaker |  | Example: Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
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To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. |  | source: webster1913
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To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less. |  | source: webster1913
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