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wasteadjective producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetationwaste acreage that was not fit for anything barren, bony(also boney), dead, desolate, hardscrabble, impoverished, infertile, poor, stark, unfertile, unproductive bleak, inhospitable, lifelessuncultivable, untillablebankrupted, consumed, debilitated, depleted, diminished, drained, dried-up, enfeebled, exhausted, expended, lessened, reduced, spent, used uparid, desert, droughty, dry, rainless, sere(also sear), thirsty, waterlessbaked, dehydrated, parched, sunbaked fertile, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, productive, rich arable, tillablegreen, sylvan, verdant an instance of spending money or resources without care or restraintit seems like a waste to spend my entire paycheck on a bigger TV extravagance, prodigality indulgence, luxury, splurgeloss, wastagedissipation, profligacy, profusion, squandering, wastefulnessoverindulgence, self-indulgenceexcess, immoderacy, overkill necessitybelt-tightening, conservation, economizing, economy, frugality, parsimony, penny-pinching, saving, scrimping, skimping, thriftausterity, moderation, restraint, temperance, temperateness discarded or useless materialgathered up the waste when he was finished sewing chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck(also drek), dross, dust, effluvium(also effluvia), garbage, junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck crud, sewage, slop, swill, washdetritus, remains, rubble, ruinsdump, scrap heaplumber, odds and ends, trumperyflotsam, jetsam, wreckagecastoff, cull, discard, hand-me-down, reject, throwawaynothing, straw, two bits catch, gem, goody(or goodie), jewel, pearl, plum, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trove, valuablebooty, find, salvage land that is uninhabited or not fit for cropsan area that was a barren waste after the strip-mining had ended barren, desert, desolation, heath, no-man's-land, wasteland badlandbrush, bushdust bowlopen, open air, outdoors, out-of-doorsnature, wild, wilderness solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canala local ordinance requiring dog owners to properly dispose of their pet's waste dirt, doo-doo, dropping, dung, excrement, excreta, feces, ordure, poop, scat, slops, soil night soil, stooldunghill, guano, manure, midden, muckspoorsewage, seweragecoprolite a wide space or areaa legendary mariner doomed to sail the watery wastes of the world until Judgment Day breadth, distance, expanse, expansion, extent, field, length, plain, reach, sheet, spread, stretch domain, sphere, territorycompass, range, scope, sweepgamut, scale, spectrumdepth, emptiness, voidextension, latitude, spanamplitude, immensity, magnitude a gradual weakening, loss, or destructionthe slow waste of the once broad beach by the relentless tide wasteverbto use up carelesslyhe wasted his lottery winnings on booze-soaked nights with gold diggers blow, dissipate, fiddle away, fritter (away), lavish, lose, misspend, run through, spend, squander, throw away, trifle (away) splurgeconsume, deplete, exhaust, impoverish, overspend, shootindulge, overindulgedisburse, expend, lay out play ducks and drakes with(or make ducks and drakes of) conserve economize, scrimp, skimppreserve, protect, savehoard, lay up to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofone country attempting to waste another annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, raze, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, total, vaporize, wrack, wreck beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against)blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiateerode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away)dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmakeblot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe outdespoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalizeassassinate, butcher, cut down, dispatch, execute, fell, kill, kill off, massacre, mow (down), murder, slaughter, slay, take out, zap build, construct, erect, put up, raise, rear, set up doctor, fix, mend, patch, recondition, repair, revampcreate, inventassemble, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, manufacture, mold, produce, shapebring about, constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organizeconserve, preserve, protect, saverebuild, reconstruct, remodel, renovate, restore to diminish the physical strength ofendless months of inactivity wasted him debilitate, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, prostrate, sap, soften, tire, weaken cripple, disable, hamstring, incapacitatedeplete, depress, exhaust, impoverish, unman, wash outdamage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, invalid, lay upbreak down, grind (down), wear down, wear outparalyze beef (up), fortify, strengthen energize, invigorate, recruit, rejuvenate, vitalizeharden, season, toughen v.ravage, devastate, waste, sack, pillage, despoil mean to lay waste by plundering or destroying.ravage implies violent often cumulative depredation and destruction.a hurricane ravaged the coast devastate implies the complete ruin and desolation of a wide area.an earthquake devastated the city waste may imply producing the same result by a slow process rather than sudden and violent action.years of drought had wasted the area sack implies carrying off all valuable possessions from a place.barbarians sacked ancient Rome pillage implies ruthless plundering at will but without the completeness suggested by sack.settlements pillaged by Vikings despoil applies to looting or robbing without suggesting accompanying destruction.the Nazis despoiled the art museums in the 13th century |