Antonyms for waste
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : weyst |
| Phonetic Transcription : weɪst |
Definition of waste
Origin :- c.1200, "devastate, ravage, ruin," from Anglo-French and Old North French waster "to spoil, ruin" (Old French guaster), altered (by influence of Frankish *wostjan) from Latin vastare "lay waste," from vastus "empty, desolate, waste" (see vain).
- The word also existed in Old English as westan. Meaning "to lose strength or health; pine; weaken" is attested from c.1300; the sense of "squander, spend or consume uselessly" is first recorded mid-14c.; meaning "to kill" is from 1964. Wasted "intoxicated" is slang from 1950s. The adjective is recorded from late 13c.
- noun spending, use without thought
- noun land that is uncultivated
- noun garbage, refuse
- verb spend or use without thought; dwindle
- verb ruin, destroy
- It is wrong to waste the precious gift of time, on acrimony and division.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Fellow citizens, we must not waste the precious gift of this time.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- They waste the time one should spend in making them come true.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- I disdain to spoil my eyes or waste my time by newspaper-reading.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 » by Various
- Let us waste no time in discussions about abstract law and right.
- Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
- Indeed they were here enabled to get more food, and to waste no time hunting.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- What's the use of giving the politicians more money to waste?
- Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
- With so little time to live, I do not choose to waste any of it in sleep.
- Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- But Ulysses had no time to waste in trying to get at the mystery.
- Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- But Ulysses did not waste much time in listening to the laughter or the song.
- Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Synonyms for waste
- atrophy
- badlands
- barren
- be of no avail
- blow
- bog
- brush
- brushland
- burn up
- bush
- consume
- corrode
- crumble
- debilitate
- debris
- decay
- decline
- decrease
- deplete
- depredate
- desecrate
- desert
- desolate
- desolation
- despoil
- destruction
- devastate
- devastation
- devour
- dilapidation
- disable
- disappear
- dissipate
- dissipation
- disuse
- divert
- drain
- dreck
- dregs
- droop
- dross
- dust bowl
- eat away
- ebb
- emaciate
- empty
- enfeeble
- excess
- exhaust
- exhaustion
- expenditure
- extravagance
- fade
- fen
- fritter
- fritter away
- frivol away
- gamble away
- gnaw
- go to waste
- havoc
- hogwash
- improvidence
- jungle
- junk
- lavish
- lavishness
- lay waste
- leavings
- leftovers
- litter
- lose
- loss
- lost opportunity
- marsh
- marshland
- misapplication
- misapply
- misemploy
- misuse
- moor
- offal
- offscourings
- overdoing
- perish
- pillage
- pour down the drain
- prodigality
- quagmire
- rape
- ravage
- raze
- reduce
- rubbish
- rubble
- ruin
- ruins
- rummage
- run dry
- run through
- sack
- sap
- scrap
- sink
- slop
- solitude
- splurge
- spoil
- spoliate
- squander
- squandering
- swamp
- sweepings
- swill
- thin
- throw away
- trash
- trifle away
- tundra
- undermine
- unthriftiness
- void
- wane
- wastage
- wastefulness
- wasteland
- wear
- wear out
- wild
- wilderness
- wilds
- wilt
- wither
- wreak havoc
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