waste.
浪费,废物,废弃物,废弃
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Definitions
v.verb · 有主动词
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wast·ed, wast·ing.
- ›to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- ›to fail or neglect to use: to waste an opportunity.
- ›to destroy or consume gradually; wear away: The waves waste the rock of the shore.
- ›to wear down or reduce in bodily substance, health, or strength; emaciate; enfeeble: to be wasted by disease or hunger.
- ›to destroy, devastate, or ruin: a country wasted by a long and futile war.
- ›Slang. to kill or murder.
v.verb · 无主动词
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wast·ed, wast·ing.
- ›to be consumed, spent, or employed uselessly or without giving full value or being fully utilized or appreciated.
- ›to become gradually consumed, used up, or worn away:A candle wastes in burning.
- ›to become physically worn; lose flesh or strength; become emaciated or enfeebled.
- to diminish gradually; dwindle, as wealth, power, etc.: The might of England is wasting.
Phrases
- waste away
- waste not, want not
- waste one's breath
- go to waste
- haste makes waste
- lay waste
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
A lot of time and energy is wasted among analysts in debating how exactly to characterize skewed maps that result from residential segregation.
Not surprisingly, the vast waste deposits produced during the Great Acceleration figure prominently in the search for a suitable stratigraphic section to place the GSSP that will mark the start of the Anthropocene.
Some of the ones my other friend got were round, which wastes space.
“If you don’t find out what the answer is, you’re kind of wasting your time,” he says.
You do not have to waste your time on the same project again and use it on another channel or place to reach your target audience quickly and easily.
When twelve people are killed by violence, whoever they are, for whatever reason, that is a tragedy and a waste.
First, though, he has to be shocked into recognizing the barren waste of his spiritual life – by spirits.
He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.
Kocurek became especially frustrated with a commercial waste facility in Jim Wells County.
They also used the powers of their separate agencies to cite waste haulers for spilling sludge along roadways.