wastenoun詞源 1/ˈweɪ̯st/

• 1

  Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.

• 2

  Excrement or urine.

  • The cage was littered with animal waste.
• 3

  A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.

  • We went down accordingly into the waste, and began to make our toilsome and devious travel towards the eastern verge.
  • The pampas of Argentina and the chilly wastes of Patagonia, like the prairies and deserts of North America, were largely shunned by Spanish settlers until the 1870s.
• 4

  A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.

• 5

  A large tract of uncultivated land.

• 6

  historicalThe part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.

• 7

  A vast expanse of water.

• 8

  A disused mine or part of one.

wasteadj詞源 1/ˈweɪ̯st/

• 1

  derogatoryslangUseless and contemptible.

  • Niggas moves so waste / Please, come outside the house and show yourself / So I can say it to your face
  • Waste / Don't talk to me / You're so waste

wasteadj詞源 2/ˈweɪ̯st/

• 1

  archaicUncultivated, uninhabited.

  • SOo whanne syr Galahad was departed from the castel of maydens / he rode tyl he came to a waste forest / & there he mette with syre launcelot and syr Percyuale but they knewe hym not / for he was newe desguysed / Ryghte so syr launcelot his fader dressid his spere and brake it vpon syr Galahad
• 2

  Barren; desert; empty.

  • ‘The stars,’ she whispers, ‘blindly run; ⁠A web is wov’n across the sky; ⁠From out waste places comes a cry, And murmurs from the dying sun: […]
  • For centuries the shrine at Mecca had been of merely local importance, far outshone by the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, whose cult Christians had in good measure renewed by their pilgrimage in honour of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, while leaving the actual site of the Jerusalem Temple dishonoured and waste.
• 3

  Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.

  • Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
• 4

  Superfluous; needless.

• 5

  Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

  • the savage Baron's heart[…] became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.
• 6

  Unfortunate; disappointing.

wasteverb詞源 3/ˈweɪ̯st/

• 1

  To devastate; to destroy.

  • Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath wasted, / Art made a myrrour to behold my plight.
  • The Tiber / Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
• 2

  To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.

  • We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.
  • I like this place, / And willingly could waste my time in it.
• 3

  slangTo kill; to murder.

• 4

  To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

  • until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness
  • Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.
• 5

  To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.

• 6

  To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.

  • […]The barrell of meale shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oile faile, vntill the day that the Lord sendeth raine vpon the earth.
• 7

  lawTo damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.