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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.

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.

That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.

That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.

Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; - said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.

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.

That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.

That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.

Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; - said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

To lay in ruins; to destroy; to wear away gradually; to spend or use recklessly.

To lose bulk value, or strength.

Lying unused; desolate; dreary; desert; unproductive; worthless.

The act of spending carelessly; that which is unused; the state of being unused, squandered, etc.; something thrown aside in a manufacturing process; as, cotton waste; refuse; a desert.

Wastefully.

Wastefulness.

Wastefully.

Wastefulness.

Empty, desert: desolate: stripped: lying unused: unproductive.

To lay waste or make desolate: to destroy: to wear out gradually: to squander: to diminish: to impair.

To be diminished: to dwindle: to be consumed.

Act of wasting: useless expenditure: loss: destruction: that which is wasted or waste: uncultivated country: desert: refuse.

Wastefully.

Wastefulness.

To expend thoughtlessly or idly; squander.

Worthless; useless; refuse.

Unproductive; desert; made desolate.

The act of wasting or squandering.

A continuous diminishing or failing; wasting; decline.

A wilderness; desert.

Wasteful.

Act of wasting; anything wasted; loss; diminution; uncultivated land; desert; refuse.

Desert; desolate; unproductive; unused; valueless.

To be diminished.

To lay waste; desolate; destory; wear away; squauder; impair.

Destroyed; ruined; desolate; uncultivated; destitute; stripped; superfiuous; worthless; of no value; untilled. Laid waste, desolated; ruined.

To diminish by gradual dissipation or loss; to scatter and destroy; to squander; to cause to be lost through wantonness or negligence; to destroy in enmity; to desolate; to destroy by violence: to impair strength gradually; to wear out; to spend; to consume; to damage, impair or injure, as an estate, by suffering the buildings, fences, &c., to go to decay; to exhaust.

To lose bulk or substance gradually; to be diminished or lost by slow dissipation, consumption or evaporation.

The act of squandering; dissipation of property through wantonness, ambition, extravagance, luxury, or negligence; useless expenditure; prodigality or dissipation; a desolate or uncultivated country; land untilled, though capable of tillage; region ruined and deserted; mischief; destruction; spoil, destruction or injury done to houses, woods, &c., to the prejudice of the heir.

To destroy or expend wantonly or unnecessarily; to squander; to throw away; to wear out; to consume; to damage or injure; to lose bulk or substance gradually; to be consumed or dissipated.

Ruined; destroyed; uncultivated; rejected, or used for inferior purposes; that of which no account is taken.

Land untilled; a region ruined, deserted, or desolate; a space unoccupied; the act of squandering; that which is rejected; refuse cotton or silk; useless expense; among miners, the old neglected workings of a coalmine.

n. Act of wasting, desolating, lavishing, expending and the like ;—that which is wasted or desolate; uncultivated, or wild country ; unoccupied or unemployed space ; desert ;-that which is of no value; worthless remnant; refuse ; spoil, destruction, or injury done to houses, woods, fences, lands, &c., by a tenant ;-prodigality ; dissipation.