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

1. waste, blow, squander -- (spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree").
2. waste -- (use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience").
3. waste -- (get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer").
4. waste, run off -- (run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean").
5. neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in -- (get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized").
6. consume, squander, waste, ware -- (spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not").
7. pine away, waste, languish -- (lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away").
8. waste, emaciate, macerate -- (cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him").
9. lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge -- (devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion").
10. waste, rot -- (waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world").

1. cast-off(prenominal), discarded, junked, scrap(prenominal), waste -- (disposed of as useless; "waste paper").
2. desert, godforsaken, waste, wild -- (located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places").

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