waste

waste is part of the Basic English 850.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wāst
• IPA: /weɪst/
• SAMPA: /weIst/
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Homophones

• 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

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

Synonyms

1. garbage
2. rubbish
3. trash