to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander

to waste money; to waste words.

to fail or neglect to use

to waste an opportunity.

to destroy or consume gradually; wear away

The waves waste the rock of the shore.

to wear down or reduce in bodily substance, health, or strength; emaciate; enfeeble

to be wasted by disease or hunger.

to destroy, devastate, or ruin

a country wasted by a long and futile war.

Slang . to kill or murder.

to be consumed, spent, or employed uselessly or without giving full value or being fully utilized or appreciated.

to become gradually consumed, used up, or worn away

A candle wastes in burning.

to become physically worn; lose flesh or strength; become emaciated or enfeebled.

to diminish gradually; dwindle, as wealth, power, etc.

The might of England is wasting.

to pass gradually, as time.

useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting

The project was a waste of material, money, time, and energy.

neglect, instead of use

waste of opportunity.

gradual destruction, impairment, or decay

the waste and repair of bodily tissue.

devastation or ruin, as from war or fire.

a region or place devastated or ruined

The forest fire left a blackened waste.

anything unused, unproductive, or not properly utilized.

an uncultivated tract of land.

a wild region or tract of land; desolate country, desert, or the like.

an empty, desolate, or dreary tract or extent

a waste of snow.

anything left over or superfluous, as excess material or by-products, not of use for the work in hand

a fortune made in salvaging factory wastes.

remnants, as from the working of cotton, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil, etc.

Physical Geography . material derived by mechanical and chemical disintegration of rock, as the detritus transported by streams, rivers, etc.

garbage; refuse.

wastes, excrement.

not used or in use

waste energy; waste talents.

(of land, regions, etc.) wild, desolate, barren, or uninhabited; desert.

(of regions, towns, etc.) in a state of desolation and ruin, as from devastation or decay.

left over or superfluous

to utilize waste products of manufacture.

having served or fulfilled a purpose; no longer of use.

rejected as useless or worthless; refuse

to salvage waste products.

Physiology . pertaining to material unused by or unusable to the organism.

designed or used to receive, hold, or carry away excess, superfluous, used, or useless material (often in combination)

a waste pipe; waste container.

Obsolete . excessive; needless. ?

go to waste

to fail to be used or consumed; be wasted

She hates to see good food go to waste.

lay waste

to devastate; destroy; ruin

Forest fires lay waste thousands of acres yearly.

noun

hoarding , saving , development , possessions

verb

hoard , save , build , create , preserve

noun

decay , desolation , destruction , devastation , dilapidation , dissipation , disuse , exhaustion , expenditure , extravagance , fritter * , havoc , improvidence , lavishness , loss , lost opportunity , misapplication , misuse , overdoing , prodigality , ravage , ruin , squander , squandering , unthriftiness , wastage , wastefulnessnotes:wastage is loss through use such as wear , leakage , or decay; the gradual process of wasting; or an amount that is wasted -- while waste is loss through carelessness , inefficiency , or ignorance or another word for garbage or rubbish , badlands , barren , bog , brush , brushland , bush , desert , dust bowl , fen , jungle , marsh , marshland , moor , quagmire , solitude , swamp , tundra , void , wasteland , wild , wilderness , wildsnotes:wastage is loss through use such as wear , debris , dreck , dregs , dross , excess , hogwash * , junk , leavings , leftovers , litter , offal , offscourings , rubbish , rubble , ruins , rummage , scrap , slop , sweepings , swill , trashnotes:wastage is loss through use such as wear , extravagancy , profligacy , profuseness , profusion , wastefulness , carrion , decrement , despoliation , detritus , devastation rapine , effluent , egesta , ejecta , excrement , excreta , feces , garbage , ordure , pillage , recrement , refuse , rejectamenta , remnants , sacking , scoria , slag , wasting

verb

atrophy , be of no avail , blow , burn up , consume , corrode , crumble , debilitate , decay , decline , decrease , deplete , disable , disappear , dissipate , divert , drain , droop , eat away , ebb , emaciate , empty , enfeeble , exhaust , fade , fritter away , frivol away , gamble away , gnaw , go to waste , lavish , lose , misapply , misemploy , misuse , perish , pour down the drain , run dry , run through * , sap , sink , splurge , squander , thin , throw away , trifle away , undermine , wane , wear , wear out , wilt , withernotes:wastage is loss through use such as wear , leakage , or decay; the gradual process of wasting; or an amount that is wasted -- while waste is loss through carelessness , inefficiency , or ignorance or another word for garbage or rubbish , depredate , desecrate , desolate , despoil , devastate , devour , lay waste , pillage , rape , ravage , raze , reduce , sack , spoil , spoliate , wreak havocnotes:wastage is loss through use such as wear , fool away , riot away , dawdle , fiddle away , kill , while , wile , degenerate , deteriorate , fail , flag , languish , weaken , miss , eat , swallow , carry off , cut down , cut off , destroy , dispatch , finish , slay , liquidate , barren , bush , chaff , consumption , debris , demolish , denudate , depauperate , deracinate , desert , destruction , devastation , dregs , dwindle , excrement , extravagance , fritter , garbage , idle , junk , litter , misspend , molder , murder , needless , offal , pine , prodigality , refuse , rubbish , ruin , sewage , sludge , soot , strip , trash , tundra , uncultivated , wither