waste

(noun) any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted. Synonyms: waste material, waste matter, waste product. Examples: "They collect the waste once a week." "Much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers."

(noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly. Synonyms: wastefulness, dissipation. Examples: "If the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste." "Mindless dissipation of natural resources."

(noun) the trait of wasting resources. Synonyms: thriftlessness, wastefulness. Examples: "A life characterized by thriftlessness and waste." "The wastefulness of missed opportunities."

(noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation. Synonyms: barren, wasteland. Examples: "The barrens of central africa." "The trackless wastes of the desert."

(noun) (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect. Synonyms: permissive waste.

(verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away. Synonyms: blow, squander. Examples: "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends." "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree."

(verb) use inefficiently or inappropriately. Examples: "Waste heat." "Waste a joke on an unappreciative audience."

(verb) get rid of. Examples: "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer."

(verb) run off as waste. Synonyms: run off. Examples: "The water wastes back into the ocean."

(verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing. Synonyms: neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, knock off, do in. Examples: "The mafia liquidated the informer." "The double agent was neutralized."

(verb) spend extravagantly. Synonyms: consume, squander, ware. Examples: "Waste not, want not."

(verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief. Synonyms: pine away, languish. Examples: "After her husband died, she just pined away."

(verb) cause to grow thin or weak. Synonyms: emaciate, macerate. Examples: "The treatment emaciated him."

(verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly. Synonyms: lay waste to, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge. Examples: "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion."

(verb) become physically weaker. Synonyms: rot. Examples: "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world."

(adj) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate. Synonyms: godforsaken, wild. Examples: "A desert island." "A godforsaken wilderness crossroads." "A wild stretch of land." "Waste places."