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Nouns (8)

n. 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"

wastefulness, thriftlessness

n. the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"

barren, wasteland

n. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"

waste material, waste matter

n. 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"

Verbs (22)

waste

v. use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"

waste

v. get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"

run off

v. run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"

waste away, diminish

v. become diminished

emaciate, cause to lose weight

v. cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"

languish, waste away, pine away

v. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"

ware, consume, squander

v. spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

knock off, liquidate, do in

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

blow, squander

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

devastate, desolate, ravage, lay waste to

v. devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (8)

desert, wild, desolate, god-forsaken

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

scrap, cast-off, discarded, junked

adj. thrown away; "wearing someone's cast-off clothes"; "throwaway children living on the streets"; "salvaged some thrown-away furniture"

Fuzzynyms (191)

capriciousness, unpredictability

n. the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses

recklessness, foolhardiness, rashness

n. the trait of giving little thought to danger

desert

n. arid land with little or no vegetation

grounds, dregs

n. sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid

decline, worsen, grow worse, get worse

v. grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"

fade, languish

v. become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

taper

v. diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"

fall, decrease, diminish, lessen

v. decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"

fade, wither, lose vigor, lose vitality, loose freshness

v. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"

shrink, shrivel, wither, shrivel up

v. wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"

ebb

v. flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon"

dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down, lose substance

v. become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"

drop, degenerate, deteriorate

v. grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"

fail, miscarry, go wrong

v. be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"

crash, fall violently

v. fall or come down violently; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"

falter, stammer, stutter

v. speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"

stumble, falter, bumble

v. walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"

flounder, flounder around

v. behave awkwardly; have difficulties; "She is floundering in college"

stagger, flounder

v. walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy snow"

misfire, fail to detonate, fail to fire

v. fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"

bleach, decolor, decolorize, discolorize, remove color from, bleach out

v. remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt"

wane

v. become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned"

lessen, subside

v. wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"

fade, fade out

v. become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"

exit, go, die, decease, expire, pass away, perish, pip out

v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

lapse, backslide

v. drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards

decline, wane, go down, grow smaller

v. grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"

slack, slack off, abate, let up, die away

v. become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"

block, stop, halt, kibosh, put the kibosh on

v. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

break, fail, go, die, give, break down, conk out, give out, give way

v. stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

decline, worsen, grow worse, get worse

v. grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"

drop, degenerate, deteriorate

v. grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"

dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down, lose substance

v. become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"

fade, languish

v. become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

flag, slack off, ease up, ease off, slacken off

v. become less intense

idle, laze, stagnate, be idle, twiddle one's thumbs

v. be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"

shrink, shrivel, wither, shrivel up

v. wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"

purse, wrinkle

v. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips"

gratify, indulge, pander to, yield to

v. yield (to); give satisfaction to

shower, lavish, give generously

v. expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise"

fling, splurge, indulge onself

v. indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV"

wipe, obliterate, efface

v. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

shoot, fritter, fool, dissipate, fritter away, fool away, frivol away

v. spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"

blow, squander, spend generously

v. spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

down, consume, go through, devour

v. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

run through, exhaust, wipe out, consume, deplete, run out of, use up, eat into

v. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

expend, spend

v. pay out; "spend money"

gratify, indulge, pander to, yield to

v. yield (to); give satisfaction to

sack, plunder

v. plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"

level, dismantle, take down, pull down, raze, rase, tear down

v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"

demolish, destroy completely

v. destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"

strip, foray, pillage, rifle, plunder, ransack, despoil, reave

v. steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

arid, waterless

adj. lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

barren, childless

adj. without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"

Synonyms (12)

unsettled, unpeopled, unpopulated

adj. with no people living there; "vast unpopulated plains"

otiose, ineffectual, futile, unavailing

adj. producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"

unprofitable, inutile

adj. not worth using

unserviceable, unusable, unuseable

adj. not capable of being used

Antonyms (12)

conserve, husband, economize, economise

v. use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"

save, conserve, preserve

v. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

retrench

v. tighten one's belt; use resources carefully

save

v. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

populous, thickly settled

adj. densely populated

verdant

adj. characterized by abundance of verdure

waste

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