| wastage | (noun) anything lost by wear or waste | - |
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| (noun) the process of wasting | - |
| waste | (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: godforsaken, wild |
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| (noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Synonyms: dissipation, wastefulness |
| (noun) (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect | Synonyms: permissive waste |
| (noun) the trait of wasting resources | Synonyms: thriftlessness, wastefulness |
| (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: barren, wasteland |
| (noun) any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted | Synonyms: waste material, waste matter, waste product |
| (verb) become physically weaker | Synonyms: rot |
| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge |
| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, macerate |
| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: languish, pine away |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, ware |
| (verb) use inefficiently or inappropriately | - |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize |
| (verb) run off as waste | Synonyms: run off |
| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, squander |
| (verb) dispose of | - |
| wastebasket | (noun) a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish | Synonyms: circular file, waste-paper basket, waste basket, wastepaper basket |
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| wastebin | (noun) a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected | Synonyms: ash-bin, ash bin, ashbin, ashcan, dustbin, garbage can, trash barrel, trash bin, trash can |
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| wasted | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: atrophied, diminished |
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| (adjective) not used to good advantage | Synonyms: squandered |
| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous |
| wasteful | (adjective) tending to squander and waste | - |
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| (adjective) laying waste | - |
| (adjective) inefficient in use of time and effort and materials | Synonyms: uneconomical |
| wastefully | (adverb) to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree | Synonyms: prodigally |
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| wastefulness | (noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Synonyms: dissipation, waste |
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| (noun) the trait of wasting resources | Synonyms: thriftlessness, waste |
| wasteland | (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: barren, waste |
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| waster | (noun) someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently | Synonyms: wastrel |
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| (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter |
| wastewater | (noun) water mixed with waste matter | Synonyms: effluent, sewer water |
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| wasteweir | (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spill, spillway |
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| wasteyard | (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dump, dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard |
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| wasting | (noun) a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse | Synonyms: atrophy, wasting away |
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| (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexia, cachexy |
| wastrel | (noun) someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently | Synonyms: waster |
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