waste

waste is on the Basic English 850 List.

wash - waste - watch

waste is one of the 1000 most common headwords.

wash - waste - watch

Pronunciation

• enPR: wāst, IPA ^(key): /weɪst/
• SAMPA: /weIst/

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• Homophone: waist

Verb

Plain form waste

Third-person singular wastes

Past tense wasted

Past participle wasted

Present participle wasting

1. To use something for no reason, or for bad reasons or only little reasons, and after it is used no one can use it again.

   He wasted the food by making it dirty.

Noun

Singular waste

Plural wastes

Waste is on the Academic Vocabulary List.

1. Things that are not useful; things that people want to take out of their house.

Synonyms

• garbage
• rubbish
• trash

Related words

• wastage