English to English
adjective
- Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the trait of wasting resources
A life characterized by thriftlessness and waste.
The wastefulness of missed opportunities.
source: WordNet 3.0
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
The barrens of central Africa.
The trackless wastes of the desert.
source: WordNet 3.0
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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: Webster 1913
- Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
A desert island.
A godforsaken wilderness crossroads.
A wild stretch of land.
Waste places.
source: WordNet 3.0
verb
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends.
You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree.
source: WordNet 3.0
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
Waste heat.
Waste a joke on an unappreciative audience.
source: WordNet 3.0
- get rid of
We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer.
source: WordNet 3.0
- run off as waste
The water wastes back into the ocean.
source: WordNet 3.0
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
The mafia liquidated the informer.
The double agent was neutralized.
source: WordNet 3.0
- spend extravagantly
Waste not, want not.
source: WordNet 3.0
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
After her husband died, she just pined away.
source: WordNet 3.0
- cause to grow thin or weak
The treatment emaciated him.
source: WordNet 3.0
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion.
source: WordNet 3.0
- become physically weaker
Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
source: Webster 1913
- To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
adj
- [west] Wasak; guhô; iláng
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
noun
- [west] Tapon; labis
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
verb
- [west] Sayangin; iwasak; sirain
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
