WASTE - Definiția din dicționar
Traducere: română
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Waste (?), a. [OE.
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1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
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The dismal situation
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His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the
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2. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
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But his
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Not a
Till we come to holier ground.
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Ill day which made this beauty
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3. Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
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And strangled with her
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Waste, v. t.
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1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
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Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath
Art made a mirror to behold my plight.
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The Tiber
Insults our walls, and
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2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
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Until your carcasses be
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O, were I able
To
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Here condemned
To
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3. To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
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The younger son gathered all together, and . . .
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And
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4. (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
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Waste (w&ā;st), v. i. 1. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less; -- commonly used with
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The time
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The barrel of meal shall not
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But man dieth, and
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2. (Sporting) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
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Waste, n. [OE.
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1. The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc. “
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For all this
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He will never . . . in the way of
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Little
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2. That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness. “The
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All the leafy nation sinks at last,
And Vulcan rides in triumph o'er the
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The gloomy
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3. That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
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4. (Law) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
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&hand_; Waste is
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5. (Mining) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
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6. (Phys. Geog.) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
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