Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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waste | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
refuse | Yes | No | Yes | No |
waste (noun) | refuse (noun) |
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useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) |
(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect | |
the trait of wasting resources | |
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | |
any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted |
waste (adjective) | refuse (adjective) |
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located in a dismal or remote area; desolate |
waste (verb) | refuse (verb) |
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become physically weaker | show unwillingness towards |
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | not accept as true |
cause to grow thin or weak | refuse to let have |
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | refuse entrance or membership |
spend extravagantly | elude, especially in a baffling way |
use inefficiently or inappropriately | resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ |
get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | |
run off as waste | |
spend thoughtlessly; throw away | |
dispose of |