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waste
noun as in spending, use without thought
Strongest match
Strong matches
decay, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, dissipation, disuse, exhaustion, expenditure, extravagance, fritter, havoc, improvidence, lavishness, loss, misapplication, overdoing, prodigality, ravage, ruin, squander, squandering, wastage, wastefulness
Weak matches
noun as in land that is uncultivated
noun as in garbage, refuse
verb as in spend or use without thought; dwindle
Strongest matches
blow, consume, deplete, dissipate, divert, drain, exhaust, lavish, lose, misuse, squander, undermine
Strong matches
atrophy, corrode, crumble, debilitate, decay, decline, decrease, disable, disappear, droop, ebb, emaciate, empty, enfeeble, fade, gnaw, misapply, perish, sap, sink, splurge, thin, wane, wear, wilt, wither
Weak matches
be of no avail, burn up, eat away, fritter away, frivol away, gamble away, go to waste, misemploy, pour down the drain, run dry, run through, throw away, trifle away, wear out
Example Sentences
A lot of time and energy is wasted among analysts in debating how exactly to characterize skewed maps that result from residential segregation.
Not surprisingly, the vast waste deposits produced during the Great Acceleration figure prominently in the search for a suitable stratigraphic section to place the GSSP that will mark the start of the Anthropocene.
Some of the ones my other friend got were round, which wastes space.
“If you don’t find out what the answer is, you’re kind of wasting your time,” he says.
You do not have to waste your time on the same project again and use it on another channel or place to reach your target audience quickly and easily.
When twelve people are killed by violence, whoever they are, for whatever reason, that is a tragedy and a waste.
First, though, he has to be shocked into recognizing the barren waste of his spiritual life – by spirits.
He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.
Kocurek became especially frustrated with a commercial waste facility in Jim Wells County.
They also used the powers of their separate agencies to cite waste haulers for spilling sludge along roadways.
It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.
Don't waste your valuable time looking for the biggest angleworm in the garden!
In a literal sense, too,” added Tom Brown, “for it will be sold as waste-paper and be made up into matches.
Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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