waste
/ˈweɪ̯st/ verb B1- To devastate; to destroy.
- To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate. · We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.
- To kill; to murder.
- To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
Plural waste · He/she/it wastes · Past wasted · Past participle wasted · -ing form wasting
Verb forms
- Base form
- waste
- He/she/it
- wastes
- Past
- wasted
- Past participle
- wasted
- -ing form
- wasting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But you wouldn’t let me go to the picnic after all, so all my trouble was wasted.”
My morning’s work has not been wasted, since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for standing in the way of anything of the sort.
“How long have you allowed us to waste ourselves upon a search that you knew to be an absurd one?”
I did not wink at you.” She then sat still five minutes longer; but unable to waste such a precious occasion, she suddenly got up, and saying to Kitty,--
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