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Synonym Collection v1.1
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Synonyms: | atrophic, atrophied, desolate, devastated, emaciated, excrementitious, exuberant, inarable, pillaged, ravaged, refuse, rejected, stripped, superfluous, tabescent, unnecessary, unproductive, untilled, unused, worthless |
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Synonym Collection v1.1
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Synonyms: | carrion, debris, decrement, desert, desolation, despoliation, destruction, detritus, devastation rapine, dissipation, dross, effluent, egesta, ejecta, excrement, excreta, feces, garbage, havoc, offal, offscourings, ordure, pillage, prodigality, ravage, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, remnants, rubbish, sacking, scoria, slag, squandering, wasting, wild, wilderness |
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | To use up foolishly or needlessly. |
| Synonyms: | consume, devour, dissipate, squander |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly. |
| Synonyms: | consume, dissipate, fool away, fritter away, riot away, squander, throw away, trifle away |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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Synonym Collection v1.1
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, barren, blow, bush, chaff, consume, consumption, dawdle, debris, decay, decline, demolish, denudate, depauperate, depredate, deracinate, desert, desolate, despoil, destroy, destruction, devastate, devastation, devour, dissipate, dregs, dwindle, emaciate, enfeeble, excrement, exhaust, extravagance, fail, fritter, fritter away, garbage, idle, junk, kill, litter, lose, misspend, molder, murder, needless, offal, pillage, pine, prodigality, ravage, refuse, rubbish, ruin, sack, sewage, sludge, soot, squander, strip, trash, tundra, uncultivated, weaken, wither |
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
| Main Entry: | barren |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | A tract of unproductive land. |
| Synonyms: | badlands, desert, wasteland, wilderness |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
| Main Entry: | consume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | To do away with completely and destructively. |
| Synonyms: | devour, eat, swallow |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
| Main Entry: | devastate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | To destroy completely as or as if by conquering. |
| Synonyms: | desolate, ravage |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
| Main Entry: | extravagance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | Excessive or imprudent expenditure. |
| Synonyms: | extravagancy, lavishness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, squander, wastefulness |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
| Main Entry: | fade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | To lose strength or power. |
| Synonyms: | decline, degenerate, deteriorate, fail, flag, languish, sink, wane, weaken |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
| Main Entry: | idle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work. |
| Synonyms: | dawdle, fiddle away, kill, trifle away, while, wile |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
| Main Entry: | kill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | To cause the death of. |
| Synonyms: | carry off, cut down, cut off, destroy, dispatch, finish, slay |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
| Main Entry: | lose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | To fail to take advantage of. |
| Synonyms: | miss |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | To take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully. |
| Synonyms: | destroy, finish, kill, liquidate, slay |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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