Definition of Waste

Waste

Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

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.

To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.

To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald Reagan

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau