Synonym: consume, dregs, exhaust, garbage, refuse, rubbish, spend, squander, use up. Antonym: save. Similar words: plaster cast, haste, paste, caste, baste, chaste, hasten, taste. Meaning: [weɪst] n. 1. any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted 2. useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly 3. the trait of wasting resources 4. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation 5. (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect. v. 1. spend thoughtlessly; throw away 2. use inefficiently or inappropriately 3. get rid of 4. run off as waste 5. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing 6. spend extravagantly 7. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief 8. cause to grow thin or weak 9. devastate or ravage 10. waste away. adj. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate.
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151. The program to phase down waste in natural sources is progressing successfully in the country.
152. We don't want to waste our energy trying to persuade people who are just not interested.
153. To my way of thinking, it would just be a massive waste of money.
154. The soil has been poisoned with chemical waste from the factory.
155. More and more waste and poison are poured into the water, the soil and the air.
156. The government has been storing radioactive waste at Fernald for 50 years.
157. The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.
158. At the extreme, some nuclear waste is so radioactive it has to be kept isolated for thousands of years.
159. Buying that sports car was a sinful waste of money.
160. If you want to waste your money, that's your 'own look-out.
161. The government is having difficulty finding a safe depository for nuclear waste.
162. The nuclear waste has been entombed in concrete many metres under the ground.
163. Waste products from factories can be made into road - building material.
164. We have been employed to look at ways of reducing waste.
165. I'm not going to waste any more words on the subject.
166. Large sections of the river have been poisoned by toxic waste from factories.
167. The power of the Green movement in Germany has made that country a leader in the drive to recycle more waste materials.
168. They won't listen, so don't waste your breath telling them.
169. Three schools in Putney have pooled their resources/money in order to buy an area of waste ground and turn it into a sports field.
170. The rivers are used as dumping grounds for industrial waste.
171. Carpe Diem! You only live today once, so don't waste it!
172. I don't dislike sport qua sport I just think it's rather a waste of time.
173. The lights went on day and night and it was really a waste.
174. His body had been dumped in an area of waste land just outside the city.
175. Waste water is pumped from the factory into a nearby river.
176. Yarrow can be found growing wild in fields and on waste ground.
177. The campaign has been shown to be a waste of money.
178. There could be many reasons and he was not going to waste time speculating on them.
179. Don't waste your money on me, love,[http://sentencedict.com/waste.html] keep it for yourself.
180. The nuclear waste is encased in concrete before being sent for storage in disused mines.
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