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1. Oxford Dictionary

   waste

   • IPA[weɪst]

   英式

   • v.
     use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose；expend on an unappreciative recipient
   • adj.
     (of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process；(of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on
   • n.
     an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose；the gradual loss or diminution of something

   • verb: waste, 3rd person present: wastes, gerund or present participle: wasting, past tense: wasted, past participle: wasted

   • noun: waste, plural noun: wastes

2. • 釋義
   • 相關詞
   • 片語

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose we can't afford to waste electricity I don't use the car, so why should I waste precious money on it? 同義詞 squander, fritter away, misspend, misuse, spend recklessly, ... 更多throw away, lavish, be wasteful with, dissipate, spend like water, throw around like confetti, go through, run through, exhaust, drain, deplete, burn up, use up, consume, informalblow, splurge反義詞 conserve
   • ▪ expend on an unappreciative recipient her small talk was wasted on this guest
   • ▪ fail to make full or good use of we're wasted in this job
   • ▪ deliberately dispose of (surplus stock) 20% of stock will need to be wasted
   • 2. (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated she was visibly wasting away 同義詞 grow weak, wither, atrophy, become emaciated, shrivel up, ... 更多shrink, decay, decline, wilt, fade, flag, deteriorate, degenerate, rot, moulder, languish, be abandoned, be neglected, be forgotten, be disregarded反義詞 flourish, thrive
   • ▪ archaic make progressively weaker and more emaciated these symptoms wasted the patients very much
   • 3. literary devastate or ruin (a place) he seized their cattle and wasted their country
   • ▪ North American informal kill or severely injure (someone) I saw them waste the guy I worked for 同義詞 murder, kill, do away with, assassinate, liquidate, ... 更多do to death, eliminate, terminate, dispatch, finish off, put to death, execute, slaughter, butcher, massacre, wipe out, destroy, annihilate, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, decimate, mow down, shoot down, cut down, cut to pieces, informalbump off, polish off, do in, knock off, top, take out, croak, stiff, ice, off, rub out, whack, smoke, literaryslay
   • 4. literary (of time) pass away the years were wasting

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. (of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly plants produce oxygen as a waste product 同義詞 unwanted, excess, superfluous, left over, scrap, ... 更多extra, unused, useless, worthless, unproductive, unusable, unprofitable反義詞 useful
   • 2. (of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on a patch of waste ground 同義詞 uncultivated, barren, desert, unproductive, infertile, ... 更多unfruitful, arid, bare, desolate, solitary, lonely, empty, void, uninhabited, unpopulated, wild反義詞 cultivated

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose it's a waste of time trying to argue with him they had learned to avoid waste 同義詞 squandering, dissipation, frittering away, misspending, misuse, ... 更多misapplication, misemployment, abuse, prodigality, extravagance, wastefulness, lavishness, unthriftiness
   • ▪ archaic the gradual loss or diminution of something he was pale and weak from waste of blood
   • 2. unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products nuclear waste hazardous industrial wastes 同義詞 refuse, litter, debris, dross, junk, ... 更多detritus, scrap, dregs, leavings, remains, scraps, offscourings, sewage, effluent, effluvium, rubbish, garbage, trash
   • 3. a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land the icy wastes of the Antarctic 同義詞 desert, wasteland, wilderness, barrenness, emptiness, ... 更多vastness, wilds
   • 4. damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.

   wasted

   • adj.
     used or expended carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose: wasted fuel a wasted opportunity

   Oxford American Dictionary

   wasted

   • adj.
     used or expended carelessly or to no purpose: wasted fuel a wasted opportunity

   Oxford Dictionary

   waste words

   • ph.
     talk in vain

   Oxford American Dictionary

   waste words

   • ph.
     talk in vain

   Oxford Dictionary

   zero-waste

   • adj.
     generating very little or no waste: her mission is to inspire customers to lead a zero-waste lifestyle Victoria offers a handful of zero-waste stores

   Oxford American Dictionary

   nuclear waste

   • n.
     radioactive waste material, for example from the use or reprocessing of nuclear fuel.

   Oxford Dictionary

   industrial waste

   • n.
     waste material produced by industrial processes or activity: industrial waste is polluting the rivers the city's harbour was contaminated with industrial wastes

   Oxford Dictionary

   zero-waste

   • adj.
     generating very little or no waste: her mission is to inspire customers to lead a zero-waste lifestyle Victoria offers a handful of zero-waste stores

   Oxford Dictionary

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   片語

   • go to waste
   • lay waste to
   • waste of space
   • waste not, want not
3. • 更多解釋

   waste

   • IPA[wāst]

   美式

   • v.
     use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose: we can't afford to waste electricity I don't use the car, so why should I waste precious money on it?
   • adj.
     (of a material, substance, or byproduct) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or ... ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly plants produce oxygen as a waste product
   • n.
     an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose: it's a waste of time trying to argue with him they had learned to avoid waste

   Oxford American Dictionary