waste
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Noun 4 meanings
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Excrement or urine.
“The cage was littered with animal waste.”
A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
Adjective 4 meanings
Barren; desert; empty.
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
Superfluous; needless.
Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Verb 4 meanings
To devastate; to destroy.
To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
“We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.”
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
Etymology
From Middle English wast, waste (“a waste”, noun), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast, waste (“a waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“a waste”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstaz, *wōstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”).
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WASTE at a glance
WASTE has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (W 4 + A 1 + S 1 + T 1 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,606 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with waste
All rhymes- TASTE5
- PASTE7
- CASTE7
- HASTE8
- TOOTHPASTE15
- CELESTE9
- DISTASTE9
- ARTISTE7
- CHASTE11
- AUGUSTE8
- NAMASTE9
- AFTERTASTE13
One letter away
- TASTE5
- PASTE7
- CASTE7
- HASTE8
- WAITE8
- BASTE7
- WASTS8
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