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waste
What does waste mean?
waste (verb): to squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use waste in a sentence?
- We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce waste?
/weɪst/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does waste come from?
From Middle English wasten (“to waste, lay waste”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French waster (“to waste, devastate”) (compare also the variant gaster and French gâter from a related Old French word).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to waste
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “waste” mean?
to prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation
Not quite: that's what ban means.
to arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc
Not quite: that's what judge means.
to squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate
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to point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known
Not quite: that's what indicate means.
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