All waste synonyms

noun waste

• rummage — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
• slop — to spill or splash (liquid).
• sweepings — of wide range or scope.
• swill — liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
• offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
• spending — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
• misuse — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
• decay — When something such as a dead body, a dead plant, or a tooth decays, it is gradually destroyed by a natural process.
• desolation — Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
• destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
• devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
• dilapidation — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
• dissipation — the act of dissipating.
• disuse — discontinuance of use or practice: Traditional customs are falling into disuse.
• exhaustion — A state of extreme physical or mental fatigue.
• expenditure — The action of spending funds.
• extravagance — Lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources.
• fritter — to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
• havoc — great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.
• improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
• lavishness — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
• loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
• misapplication — to make a wrong application or use of.
• overdoing — to do to excess; overindulge in: to overdo dieting.
• prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
• ravage — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
• wastage — loss by use, wear, decay, etc.
• wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
• thriftily — practicing thrift or economical management; frugal: a thrifty shopper.
• badlands — any deeply eroded barren area
• barren — A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
• bog — A bog is an area of land which is very wet and muddy.
• brush — A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair.
• bush — A bush is a large plant which is smaller than a tree and has a lot of branches.
• desert — A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants.
• fen — low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
• jungle — a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair.
• marsh — Dame (Edith) Ngaio [nahy-oh] /ˈnaɪ oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1982, New Zealand writer of detective novels.
• marshland — a region, area, or district characterized by marshes, swamps, bogs, or the like.
• moor — a Muslim of the mixed Berber and Arab people inhabiting NW Africa.
• quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
• solitude — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
• swamp — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
• tundra — one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
• void — Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
• wasteland — land that is uncultivated or barren.
• wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
• wilderness — a wooded area in NE Virginia: several battles fought here in 1864 between armies of Grant and Lee.