Crossword-Solution: WASTE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Waste | a. | Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. |
| Waste | a. | Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper. |
| Waste | a. | Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous. |
| Waste | a. | To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. |
| Waste | a. | To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. |
| Waste | a. | To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury. |
| Waste | a. | To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay. |
| Waste | v. i. | To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less. |
| Waste | v. i. | To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc. |
| Waste | v. | The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc. |
| Waste | v. | That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness. |
| Waste | v. | That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc. |
| Waste | v. | Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder. |
| Waste | v. | Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WASTE | anagram | ASTEW, AWEST, ETWAS, SWEAT, TAWSE, TEWAS, WETAS |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
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Sentences with WASTE (5)
Before the Gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem’d Woman to the waste, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fould Voluminous and vast, a Serpent arm’d With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of Hell Hounds never ceasing bark’d With wide _Cerberean_ mouths full loud, and rung A hideous Peal: yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturb’d thir noyse, into her woomb, And kennel there, yet there still bark’d and howl’d Within unseen.
The dog took no notice, for he had arrived at an age at which all superfluous barking was cynically avoided as a waste of breath—in fact he never barked even at the sheep except to order, when it was done with an absolutely neutral countenance, as a liturgical form of Commination-service, which, though offensive, had to be gone through once now and then just to frighten the flock for their own good.
And for the disobedient thus I pray: May the gods send them neither timely fruits Of earth, nor teeming increase of the womb, But may they waste and pine, as now they waste, Aye and worse stricken; but to all of you, My loyal subjects who approve my acts, May Justice, our ally, and all the gods Be gracious and attend you evermore.
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Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.
Quotes with WASTE (3)
We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.
Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches t…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 296 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).