waste

Adjective

• located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
  • a desert island
    
  • a godforsaken wilderness crossroads
    
  • a wild stretch of land
    
  • waste places
    

Noun

• (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
  • the barrens of central Africa
    
  • the trackless wastes of the desert
    

• the trait of wasting resources
  • a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
    
  • the wastefulness of missed opportunities
    

• useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
  • if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste
    
  • mindless dissipation of natural resources
    

• 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
    

Verb

• become physically weaker
  • Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
    

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  • The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
    

• cause to grow thin or weak
  • The treatment emaciated him
    

• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
  • After her husband died, she just pined away
    

• spend extravagantly
  • waste not, want not
    

• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
  • The mafia liquidated the informer
    
  • the double agent was neutralized
    

• run off as waste
  • The water wastes back into the ocean
    

• get rid of
  • We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
    

• use inefficiently or inappropriately
  • waste heat
    
  • waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
    

• spend thoughtlessly; throw away
  • He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
    
  • You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  godforsaken , wild , permissive waste , barren , wasteland , thriftlessness , wastefulness , dissipation , waste material , waste matter , waste product , rot , lay waste to , devastate , desolate , ravage , scourge , emaciate , macerate , pine away , languish , consume , squander , ware , neutralize , n
• Antonyms: 
  conserve , husband , economize , economise