waste/waist

waste (wāst)

Verb. Transitive

• To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.
• To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigour; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble: Disease wasted his body.
• To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose: waste an opportunity.

Verb. Intransitive

• To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigour; become weak or enfeebled: wasting away from an illness.
• To pass without being put to use: Time is wasting.

Noun

• The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted: a waste of talent; gone to waste.
• A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.
• A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.
• An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product.
• Garbage; trash.
• The undigested residue of food eliminated from the body; excrement.

Adjective

• Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless: waste trimmings.
• Used as a conveyance or container for refuse: a waste bin.
• Excreted from the body: waste matter.

waist (wāst)

Noun

• The part of the human trunk between the bottom of the rib cage and the pelvis.
• The part of a garment that encircles the waist of the body.
• The middle section or part of an object, especially when narrower than the rest.