Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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- S: (n) waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted) "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"
- S: (n) waste, wastefulness, dissipation (useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly) "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
- S: (n) thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness (the trait of wasting resources) "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
- S: (n) barren, waste, wasteland (an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation) "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
- S: (n) waste, permissive waste ((law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect)
- S: (v) waste, blow, squander (spend thoughtlessly; throw away) "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
- S: (v) waste (use inefficiently or inappropriately) "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
- S: (v) waste (get rid of) "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
- S: (v) waste, run off (run off as waste) "The water wastes back into the ocean"
- S: (v) neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in (get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing) "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
- S: (v) consume, squander, waste, ware (spend extravagantly) "waste not, want not"
- S: (v) pine away, waste, languish (lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief) "After her husband died, she just pined away"
- S: (v) waste, emaciate, macerate (cause to grow thin or weak) "The treatment emaciated him"
- S: (v) lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly) "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- S: (v) waste, rot (become physically weaker) "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
- S: (adj) godforsaken, waste, wild (located in a dismal or remote area; desolate) "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"