waste

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈweɪst/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/weɪst/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(wāst)

Inflections of 'waste' (v): (⇒ conjugate)
wastes
v 3rd person singular
wasting
v pres p
wasted
v past
wasted
v past p

Collocations for "waste"


Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "waste" in context.

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waste

ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.
v
  1. don't waste my time
  2. [stop, we're] wasting time
  3. don't waste your [breath, energy]
  4. don't waste [water, electricity, food]
  5. waste your [talent, ability, skills, life]
  6. waste your [money, efforts] on
  7. wasted a [golden, once-in-a-lifetime] opportunity
  8. my [talents, paintings] are wasted on you
  9. your [talent] is wasted at that [company, school]
  10. [seems, is] a [pity, shame] to waste them
  11. wasted the best years of my life
  12. she is wasting away
  13. he wasted away to nothing
  14. causes the muscles to waste away
  15. her muscles have wasted
n
  1. [oil, liquid, gas, chemical, natural, nuclear] waste
  2. [household, food, restaurant, local, national] waste
  3. a [large, worrying, huge] amount of waste
  4. 50 [tons, hectares, containers] of waste
  5. the [disposal, dumping] of [nuclear, medical, toxic] waste
  6. the [industry, factory, plant, city] generates waste
  7. generates [a lot of, a great deal of, too much] of waste
  8. [generates, produces, spews] waste
  9. [dump, burn, recycle, regenerate] waste
  10. [cut down on, eliminate, remove] waste
  11. waste from [households, factories, restaurants]
  12. (is) such a waste
  13. a [big, complete, total] waste (of)
  14. a waste of (my) [time, energy, resources, money]
  15. a waste of [a life, her talent]
  16. the [frozen, abandoned, blackened] wastes of
  17. the waste and repair of [parts, tissue, joints]
  18. the [troops, enemy, tanks] laid waste to the (town)
n as adj
  1. waste [materials, byproducts, paper, product]
  2. waste [recycling, collection, reduction]
  3. waste [bucket, can, receptacle]
  4. waste [treatment, sanitation, disposal, management] (facilities)
'waste' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
allotment - altogether - basket - bin - blatant - bloody - bulky - cast - crime - criminal - deposit - discharge - displacement - disposal - dispose - ditch - drain - drainage - dump - dumping - efficient - endless - energy - enormous - every - foul - guideline - handling - haste - hazardous - heap - hill - hopeless - human - incredible - landfill - material - meaningless - meeting - needless - ought - output - outrageous - plastic - pointless - poison - processing - pulp - rank - recycle

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