The noun waste has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (6) waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product -- (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers")
2. (4) waste, wastefulness, dissipation -- (useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources")
3. (1) thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness -- (the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities")
4. barren, waste, wasteland -- (an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert")
5. waste, permissive waste -- ((law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect)
Overview of verb waste
The verb waste has 10 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (10) waste, blow, squander -- (spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree")
2. (8) waste -- (use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience")
3. waste -- (get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer")
4. waste, run off -- (run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean")
5. neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in -- (get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized")
7. pine away, waste, languish -- (lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away")
8. waste, emaciate, macerate -- (cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him")
9. lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge -- (devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion")
10. waste, rot -- (waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world")
Overview of adj waste
The adj waste has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. desert, godforsaken, waste, wild -- (located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places")