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单词 waste
释义

waste

See also: wasté

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wāst, IPA(key): /weɪst/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪst
  • Homophone: waist

Etymology 1

From Middle English wast, waste (“a waste”, noun), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast, waste (“a waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“a waste”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstaz[1], *wōstuz[2], from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”).

Noun

waste (countable and uncountable, plural wastes)

  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.
    • 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, Limited., published 1886, OCLC 1056292939:
      We went down accordingly into the waste, and began to make our toilsome and devious travel towards the eastern verge.
  4. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
  5. A large tract of uncultivated land.
  6. (historical) The 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.
  9. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
    That was a waste of time!
    Her life seemed a waste.
  10. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
  11. Gradual loss or decay.
  12. A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
  13. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
  14. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
  15. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
Derived terms
terms derived from waste (noun)
  • affirmative waste
  • ameliorative waste
  • bulky waste
  • cotton waste
  • go to waste
  • industrial waste
  • nuclear waste
  • permissive waste
  • radioactive waste
  • rock waste
  • silk waste
  • toxic waste
  • trade waste
  • voluntary waste
  • wasteful
  • wastefully
  • wastefulness
  • wasteless
  • waste of air
  • waste of oxygen
  • waste of space
  • waste of time
  • waste pipe
  • wastey
Descendants
  • → Wu: 違司 (we⁶-sy¹)
Translations
decaying of the body by disease — See also translations at atrophy
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Adjective

waste (comparative more waste, superlative most waste)

  1. (MTE, slang, derogatory) Useless and contemptible.
    • 2017 March 18, “Free Smoke”, in More Life, performed by Drake:
      Niggas moves so waste / Please, come outside the house and show yourself / So I can say it to your face
    • 2022 September 22, “ONTARIO PLACE”, in BADMAN, performed by Bert Le Plug:
      Waste / Don't talk to me / You're so waste
Derived terms
terms derived from waste (adjective)
  • wasteman
  • wasteyute

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*wōstaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 470
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*wōstu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 593: “*ueh₂s-tu-”

Etymology 2

From Middle English wast, waste (“waste”, adjective), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast (“waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“waste, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with Old High German wuosti, wuasti (“waste, empty”), German wüst, Old Saxon wōsti (“desolate”), Old English wēste (“waste, barren, desolate, empty”).

Adjective

waste (comparative more waste, superlative most waste)

  1. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:
      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
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  2. Barren; desert.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 255:
      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.
    • 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
      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.
    • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:
      the savage Baron's heart […] became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.
  6. Unfortunate; disappointing. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Usage notes

Same meanings as wasted.

Derived terms
terms derived from waste (adjective)
  • lay waste
  • lie waste
  • nonwasted
  • nonwasting
  • unwasted
  • wasteland
  • wasteness
  • waste water, wastewater
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English wasten (“to waste, lay waste”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French waster (“to waste, devastate”) (compare also the variant gaster and French gâter from a related Old French word); the Anglo-Norman form waster was either from Frankish *wōstijan (“to waste”), from Proto-Indo-European *wāsto- (“empty, wasted”), or alternatively from Latin vastāre, present active infinitive of vastō and influenced by the Frankish; the English word was assisted by similarity to native Middle English westen ("to waste"; > English weest). Cognate with Old High German wuostan, wuastan, wuostjan (“to waste”) (Modern German wüsten), Old English wēstan (“to lay waste, ravage”).

Verb

waste (third-person singular simple present wastes, present participle wasting, simple past and past participle wasted)

  1. (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarie. Aegloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:
      Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath wasted, / Art made a myrrour to behold my plight.
    • 1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
      The Tiber / Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
  2. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
    • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vi], lines 812-13:
      I like this place,
      And willingly could waste my time in it.
    • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
      Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
    • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
      A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. […] This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
    • 1909, Francis Galton, Memories of my life, page 69
      E. Kay (1822-1897), afterwards Lord Justice of Appeal, had rooms on the same staircase as myself, and we wasted a great deal of time together, both in term and in my second summer vacation. .
    We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.
  3. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
  4. (transitive) 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.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Numbers 14:33:
      until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness
    • 1769, William Robertson, The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. and W. Strahan, for W[illiam] Strahan, T[homas] Cadell, […]; and J. Balfour, […], OCLC 1018391497:
      Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.
  5. (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
  6. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Kings 17:14:
      […] 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. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
Conjugation
Conjugation of waste
infinitive(to) waste
present tensepast tense
1st-person singular waste wasted
2nd-person singular waste, wastest† wasted, wastedst†
3rd-person singular wastes, wasteth† wasted
plural waste
subjunctive waste wasted
imperative waste —
participles wasting wasted

†Archaic or obsolete.

Synonyms
  • (slang, to kill or murder): cack, top, duppy (see also Thesaurus:kill)
Derived terms
Terms derived from waste (verb)
  • get wasted
  • wastage
  • waste breath
  • waster
  • wastery
  • wastethrift
  • waste time
  • wastewater
  • wastingly
  • wastrel
  • wasty
Translations
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See also

  • Waste on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Waste in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Sweat, Weast, awest, swate, sweat, tawse, wetas

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋɑs.tə/
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Verb

waste

  1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of wassen

Middle English

Adjective

waste

  1. Alternative form of wast (“waste (adjective)”)
  2. Inflection of wast (“waste (adjective)”):
    1. weak singular
    2. strong/weak plural

Noun

waste

  1. Alternative form of wast (“waste (noun)”)

Adjective

waste

  1. Alternative form of wast (“waist”)

Verb

waste

  1. Alternative form of wast (verb form)

Verb

waste

  1. Alternative form of wasten

Tocharian B

Etymology

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Noun

waste ?

  1. refuge, sanctuary

West Flemish

Etymology

Noun derived from the verb wassen (“to wash”)

Noun

waste f

  1. laundry, clothes that need to be washed, or just have been washed.
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