What is the meaning of waste?

noun

• Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted.
  • usage: "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"
  • synonyms: waste material, waste matter, waste product
• Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly.
  • usage: "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
  • synonyms: wastefulness, dissipation
• The trait of wasting resources.
  • usage: "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
  • synonyms: thriftlessness, wastefulness
• An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.
  • usage: "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
  • synonyms: barren, wasteland
• Law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect.
  • synonyms: permissive waste

verb

• Spend thoughtlessly; throw away.
  • usage: "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
  • synonyms: blow, squander
• Use inefficiently or inappropriately.
  • usage: "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
• Get rid of.
  • usage: "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
• Run off as waste.
  • usage: "The water wastes back into the ocean"
  • synonyms: run off
• Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.
  • usage: "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
  • synonyms: neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, knock off, do in
• Spend extravagantly.
  • usage: "waste not, want not"
  • synonyms: consume, squander, ware
• Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief.
  • usage: "After her husband died, she just pined away"
  • synonyms: pine away, languish
• Cause to grow thin or weak.
  • usage: "The treatment emaciated him"
  • synonyms: emaciate, macerate
• Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
  • usage: "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
  • synonyms: lay waste to, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge
• Become physically weaker.
  • usage: "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
  • synonyms: rot

adjective

• Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate.
  • usage: "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
  • synonyms: godforsaken, wild