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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   waste

   • IPA[wāst]

   美式

   • v.
     use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose；bestow or expend on an unappreciative recipient
   • adj.
     (of a material, substance, or byproduct) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process；(of an area of land, typically in a city or town) 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
   • 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
   • ▪ bestow or 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
   • 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, molder, 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; be spent the years were wasting

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. (of a material, substance, or byproduct) 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 in a city or town) 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. material that is not wanted; the unusable remains or byproducts of something bodily 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.

   片語

   • go to waste
   • lay waste to
   • waste not, want not