waste
/ˈweɪ̯st/ sustantivo B1En español: desperdicio, desecho, desechos, basura
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- Excrement or urine. · The cage was littered with animal waste.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A vast expanse of water.
- A disused mine or part of one.
Plural wastes
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron.
You’ve got as much money to waste as any of ’em, and yet you stick to what’s decent and moderate.
The Black Panther had raced up the slope almost without a sound and was striking--he knew better than to waste time in biting--right and left among the monkeys, who were seated round Mowgli in circles fifty and sixty deep.
Rikki-tikki knew better than to waste time in staring.
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