n. 25B6; verb
he doesn't like to waste money : SQUANDER, misspend, misuse, fritter away, throw away, lavish, dissipate, throw around; informal blow, splurge.
kids are wasting away in the streets : GROW WEAK, grow thin, shrink, decline, wilt, fade, flag, deteriorate, degenerate, languish.
the disease wasted his legs : EMACIATE, atrophy, wither, debilitate, shrivel, shrink, weaken, enfeeble.
(poetic/literary) our country was wasted by the enemy. : See devastate sense 1.
(N. Amer. informal) I saw them waste the guy. : See murder verb sense 1.
conserve, thrive.
25B6; adjective
waste material : UNWANTED, excess, superfluous, left over, scrap, useless, worthless; unusable, unprofitable.
waste ground : UNCULTIVATED, barren, desert, arid, bare; desolate, void, uninhabited, unpopulated; wild.
25B6; noun
a waste of money : MISUSE, misapplication, misemployment, abuse; extravagance, wastefulness, lavishness.
household waste : RUBBISH, refuse, litter, debris, dross, junk, detritus, scrap; dregs, scraps; sewage, effluent; N. Amer. garbage, trash.
the frozen wastes of the South Pole : DESERT, wasteland, wilderness, emptiness, wilds.
25A0; lay waste . See lay 1 .