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.
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