What are the words that mean the same as waste?

Answer 1

waste

verb

1 he doesn't like to waste money: squander, misspend, misuse, fritter away, throw away, lavish, dissipate, throw around; informal blow, splurge. ANTONYMS conserve.

2 these children are wasting away in the streets: grow weak, grow thin, shrink, decline, wilt, fade, flag, deteriorate, degenerate, languish. ANTONYMS flourish, thrive.

3 the disease wasted his legs: emaciate, atrophy, wither, debilitate, shrivel, shrink, weaken, enfeeble.

4 informal I saw them waste the guy. See murder (sense 1 of the verb).

adjective

1 waste material: unwanted, excess, superfluous, left over, scrap, useless, worthless; unusable, unprofitable.

2 waste ground: uncultivated, barren, desert, arid, bare; desolate, void, uninhabited, unpopulated; wild.

noun

1 a waste of money: misuse, misapplication, misemployment, abuse; extravagance, wastefulness, lavishness.

2 household waste: garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, litter, debris, flotsam and jetsam, dross, junk, detritus, scrap; dregs, scraps; sewage, effluent.

3 (usu. wastes) the frozen wastes of the Arctic: desert, wasteland, wilderness, wilds, emptiness.