waste / weɪst /

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waste4 个定义

v. 有主动词 verb

wast·ed, wast·ing.

  1. to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
  2. to fail or neglect to use: to waste an opportunity.
  3. to destroy or consume gradually; wear away: The waves waste the rock of the shore.
v. 无主动词 verb

wast·ed, wast·ing.

  1. to be consumed, spent, or employed uselessly or without giving full value or being fully utilized or appreciated.
  2. to become gradually consumed, used up, or worn away:A candle wastes in burning.
  3. to become physically worn; lose flesh or strength; become emaciated or enfeebled.
n. 名词 noun
  1. useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting: The project was a waste of material, money, time, and energy.
  2. neglect, instead of use: waste of opportunity.
  3. gradual destruction, impairment, or decay: the waste and repair of bodily tissue.
adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. not used or in use: waste energy; waste talents.
  2. wild, desolate, barren, or uninhabited; desert.
  3. in a state of desolation and ruin, as from devastation or decay.

waste 近义词

n. 名词 noun

spending, use without thought

n. 名词 noun

land that is uncultivated

n. 名词 noun

garbage, refuse

v. 动词 verb

spend or use without thought; dwindle

v. 动词 verb

ruin, destroy

waste构成的短语

  • waste away
  • waste not, want not
  • waste one's breath
  • go to waste
  • haste makes waste
  • lay waste

更多waste例句

  1. A lot of time and energy is wasted among analysts in debating how exactly to characterize skewed maps that result from residential segregation.
  2. Not surprisingly, the vast waste deposits produced during the Great Acceleration figure prominently in the search for a suitable stratigraphic section to place the GSSP that will mark the start of the Anthropocene.
  3. Some of the ones my other friend got were round, which wastes space.
  4. “If you don’t find out what the answer is, you’re kind of wasting your time,” he says.
  5. You do not have to waste your time on the same project again and use it on another channel or place to reach your target audience quickly and easily.
  6. When twelve people are killed by violence, whoever they are, for whatever reason, that is a tragedy and a waste.
  7. First, though, he has to be shocked into recognizing the barren waste of his spiritual life – by spirits.
  8. He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.
  9. Kocurek became especially frustrated with a commercial waste facility in Jim Wells County.
  10. They also used the powers of their separate agencies to cite waste haulers for spilling sludge along roadways.
  11. It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
  12. Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.
  13. Don't waste your valuable time looking for the biggest angleworm in the garden!
  14. In a literal sense, too,” added Tom Brown, “for it will be sold as waste-paper and be made up into matches.
  15. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent.