wastes

/weɪsts/ · noun

Meaning

Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Excrement or urine.
A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
A large tract of uncultivated land.
The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
To devastate, destroy
To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
To kill; to murder.
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.

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