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ALL meanings of wasteless

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  • verb with object wasteless to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words. 1
  • verb with object wasteless to fail or neglect to use: to waste an opportunity. 1
  • verb with object wasteless to destroy or consume gradually; wear away: The waves waste the rock of the shore. 1
  • verb with object wasteless to wear down or reduce in bodily substance, health, or strength; emaciate; enfeeble: to be wasted by disease or hunger. 1
  • verb with object wasteless to destroy, devastate, or ruin: a country wasted by a long and futile war. 1
  • verb with object wasteless Slang. to kill or murder. 1
  • verb without object wasteless to be consumed, spent, or employed uselessly or without giving full value or being fully utilized or appreciated. 1
  • verb without object wasteless to become gradually consumed, used up, or worn away: A candle wastes in burning. 1
  • verb without object wasteless to become physically worn; lose flesh or strength; become emaciated or enfeebled. 1
  • verb without object wasteless to diminish gradually; dwindle, as wealth, power, etc.: The might of England is wasting. 1
  • verb without object wasteless to pass gradually, as time. 1
  • noun wasteless useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting: The project was a waste of material, money, time, and energy. 1
  • noun wasteless neglect, instead of use: waste of opportunity. 1
  • noun wasteless gradual destruction, impairment, or decay: the waste and repair of bodily tissue. 1
  • noun wasteless devastation or ruin, as from war or fire. 1
  • noun wasteless a region or place devastated or ruined: The forest fire left a blackened waste. 1
  • noun wasteless anything unused, unproductive, or not properly utilized. 1
  • noun wasteless an uncultivated tract of land. 1
  • noun wasteless a wild region or tract of land; desolate country, desert, or the like. 1
  • noun wasteless an empty, desolate, or dreary tract or extent: a waste of snow. 1
  • noun wasteless anything left over or superfluous, as excess material or by-products, not of use for the work in hand: a fortune made in salvaging factory wastes. 1
  • noun wasteless remnants, as from the working of cotton, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil, etc. 1
  • noun wasteless Physical Geography. material derived by mechanical and chemical disintegration of rock, as the detritus transported by streams, rivers, etc. 1
  • noun wasteless garbage; refuse. 1
  • noun wasteless wastes, excrement. 1
  • adjective wasteless not used or in use: waste energy; waste talents. 1
  • adjective wasteless (of land, regions, etc.) wild, desolate, barren, or uninhabited; desert. 1
  • adjective wasteless (of regions, towns, etc.) in a state of desolation and ruin, as from devastation or decay. 1
  • adjective wasteless left over or superfluous: to utilize waste products of manufacture. 1
  • adjective wasteless having served or fulfilled a purpose; no longer of use. 1
  • adjective wasteless rejected as useless or worthless; refuse: to salvage waste products. 1
  • adjective wasteless Physiology. pertaining to material unused by or unusable to the organism. 1
  • adjective wasteless designed or used to receive, hold, or carry away excess, superfluous, used, or useless material (often in combination): a waste pipe; waste container. 1
  • adjective wasteless Obsolete. excessive; needless. 1
  • idioms wasteless go to waste, to fail to be used or consumed; be wasted: She hates to see good food go to waste. 1
  • idioms wasteless lay waste, to devastate; destroy; ruin: Forest fires lay waste thousands of acres yearly. 1
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