waste : Idioms & Phrases

• noun waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
  excrement; excretion; excretory product; excreta.
  

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• noun a wildlife disease (akin to bovine spongiform encephalitis) that affects deer and elk
  

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• a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly remnants of cops from which the greater part of the yarn has been unwound.

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• the refuse of cotton mills.

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• noun food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
  scraps; refuse; garbage.
  

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• noun radioactive waste that left in a nuclear reactor after the nuclear fuel has been consumed
  

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• noun the body wastes of human beings
  

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• (Law), restraint from, or accountability for, injury; also, a suit for damages for injury.

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• verb cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  desolate; devastate; scourge; ravage; waste.
  
  • The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

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• noun destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
  ruination; ruin; ruining; wrecking.
  

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• noun (medicine) radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests)
  

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• noun (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
  waste.
  

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• noun useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed
  

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• the waste material, consisting chiefly of calcium hydroxide and sulphide, which accumulates as a useless residue or side product in the ordinary Leblanc process of soda manufacture; called also alkali waste.

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• to destroy; to make desolate; as, to lay waste the land.

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• noun poisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means)
  toxic industrial waste.
  

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• noun poisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means)
  toxic industrial waste.
  

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• noun a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up
  Superfund site; toxic site.
  

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• noun a location where toxic wastes can be or have been disposed of (often illegally)
  toxic dumpsite; toxic waste dump.
  

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• noun a location where toxic wastes can be or have been disposed of (often illegally)
  toxic dumpsite; toxic waste dump.
  

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• . (Law) See Waste, n., 4.

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• noun a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish
  wastebasket; wastepaper basket; circular file; waste basket.
  

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• a gate by which the superfluous water of a reservoir, or the like, is discharged.

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• noun any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
  waste; waste material; waste matter.
  
  • they collect the waste once a week
  • much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers

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• noun any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
  waste; waste material; waste matter.
  
  • they collect the waste once a week
  • much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers

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• noun a useless effort
  waste of effort.
  

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• noun a useless effort
  waste of effort.
  

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• noun a useless consumption of material
  

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• noun money spent for inadequate return
  
  • the senator said that the project was a waste of money

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• noun the devotion of time to a useless activity
  
  • the waste of time could prove fatal

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• verb be lazy or idle
  loaf; fuck off; lounge around; loll; lounge about; frig around; bum; arse around; bum around; arse about; loll around; bum about.
  
  • Her son is just bumming around all day

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• noun paper discarded after use
  

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• . See under Paper.

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• noun a pipe through which liquid is carried away
  drain; drainpipe.
  

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• a pipe for carrying off waste, or superfluous, water or other fluids. Specifically: (a) (Steam Boilers) An escape pipe. See under Escape. (b) (Plumbing) The outlet pipe at the bottom of a bowl, tub, sink, or the like.

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• noun any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
  waste; waste material; waste matter.
  
  • they collect the waste once a week
  • much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers

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• . (a) Steam which escapes the air. (b) Exhaust steam.

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• a trap for a waste pipe, as of a sink.

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• noun a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish
  wastebasket; wastepaper basket; circular file; waste basket.
  

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• noun a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
  dump; trash dump; rubbish dump; dumpsite; wasteyard; garbage dump.
  

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• noun a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
  atrophy; wasting.
  

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• noun involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
  white plague; phthisis; consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis.
  

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