WASTE

I. noun see: vast Date: 13th century 1. a sparsely settled or barren region ; desert , uncultivated land, a broad and empty expanse (as of water), the act or an instance of wasting ; the state of being ~d, 3. loss through breaking down of bodily tissue, gradual loss or decrease by use, wear, or decay, 4. damaged, defective, or superfluous material produced by a manufacturing process: as, material rejected during a textile manufacturing process and used usually for wiping away dirt and oil , scrap , an unwanted by-product of a manufacturing process, chemical laboratory, or nuclear reactor , refuse from places of human or animal habitation: as, garbage , rubbish , excrement , sewage , material derived by mechanical and chemical weathering of the land and moved down sloping surfaces or carried by streams to the sea, II. verb (~d; wasting) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~r, gaster, from Latin vastare, from vastus desolate, ~ Date: 13th century transitive verb to lay ~, to cause to shrink in physical bulk or strength ; emaciate , enfeeble , to wear away or diminish gradually ; consume , 4. to spend or use carelessly ; squander , to allow to be used inefficiently or become dissipated , kill , intransitive verb to lose weight, strength, or vitality, 2. to become diminished in bulk or substance, to become consumed, to spend money or consume property extravagantly or improvidently, see: ravage III. adjective Etymology: Middle English ~, wast, from Anglo-French wast Date: 14th century 1. a. being wild and uninhabited ; desolate , arid , empty , not cultivated ; not productive, being in a ruined or devastated condition, 3. \~ (I)] discarded as worthless, defective, or of no use ; refuse , excreted from or stored in inert form in a living body as a byproduct of vital activity , serving to conduct or hold refuse material , ~d 4