wastes

Noun

• any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
• useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
• the trait of wasting resources
• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
  • "the trackless wastes of the desert"
• (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
• plural of waste

Verb

• spend thoughtlessly; throw away
• use inefficiently or inappropriately
• get rid of
• run off as waste
  • "The water wastes back into the ocean"
• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
• spend extravagantly
• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
• cause to grow thin or weak
• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• become physically weaker
• third-person singular simple present indicative of waste

Synonyms

barren, blow, consume, desolate, devastate, dissipation, do in, emaciate, knock off, languish, lay waste to, liquidate, macerate, neutralise, neutralize, permissive waste, pine away, ravage, rot, run off, scourge, squander, thriftlessness, ware, waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product, wastefulness, wasteland

Antonyms

conserve