waste

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish. countable,uncountable
  2. Excrement or urine. countable,uncountable
    — The cage was littered with animal waste.
  3. A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert. countable,uncountable
    — We went down accordingly into the waste, and began to make our toilsome and devious travel towards the eastern verge.
  4. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed. countable,uncountable
  5. A large tract of uncultivated land. countable,uncountable
  6. The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land. countable,historical,uncountable
  7. A vast expanse of water. countable,uncountable
  8. A disused mine or part of one. countable,uncountable
  9. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use. countable,uncountable
    — That was a waste of time!
  10. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used. countable,uncountable
  11. Gradual loss or decay. countable,uncountable
  12. A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away. countable,uncountable
  13. Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste". countable,rare,uncountable
  14. A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect. countable,uncountable
  15. Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To devastate; to destroy. transitive
    — Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath wasted, / Art made a myrrour to behold my plight.
  2. To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate. transitive
    — We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.
  3. To kill; to murder. slang,transitive
  4. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. transitive
    — until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness
  5. To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail. intransitive
  6. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually. intransitive
    — […]The barrell of meale shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oile faile, vntill the day that the Lord sendeth raine vpon the earth.
  7. To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
形容词 adj.
  1. Useless and contemptible. derogatory,slang
    — Niggas moves so waste / Please, come outside the house and show yourself / So I can say it to your face
  2. Uncultivated, uninhabited. archaic
    — SOo whanne syr Galahad was departed from the castel of maydens / he rode tyl he came to a waste forest / & there he mette with syre launcelot and syr Percyuale but they knewe hym not / for he was newe desguysed / Ryghte so syr launcelot his fader dressid his spere and brake it vpon syr Galahad
  3. Barren; desert; empty.
    — ‘The stars,’ she whispers, ‘blindly run; ⁠A web is wov’n across the sky; ⁠From out waste places comes a cry, And murmurs from the dying sun: […]
  4. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
    — Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
  5. Superfluous; needless.
  6. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
    — the savage Baron's heart[…] became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.
  7. Unfortunate; disappointing.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
top duppy
衍生词
lay waste lie waste nonwasted nonwasting unwasted wasteland wasteness waste water wastewater
相关词
Waste in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wast, waste (“a waste”, noun), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast, waste (“a waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“a waste”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstaz, *wōstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”).
词源 2
From Middle English wast, waste (“waste”, adjective), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast (“waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“waste, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with Old High German wuosti, wuasti (“waste, empty”), German wüst, Old Saxon wōsti (“desolate”), Old English wēste (“waste, barren, desolate, empty”).
词源 3
From Middle English wasten (“to waste, lay waste”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French waster (“to waste, devastate”) (compare also the variant gaster and French gâter from a related Old French word); the Anglo-Norman form waster was either from Frankish *wōstijan (“to waste”), from Proto-Indo-European *wāsto- (“empty, wasted”), or alternatively from Latin vastāre and influenced by the Frankish; the English word was assisted by similarity to native Middle English westen ("to waste"; > English weest). Cognate with Old High German wuostan, wuastan, wuostjan (“to waste”) (Modern German wüsten), Old English wēstan (“to lay waste, ravage”).
Displaced native Old English essian and strȳndan. Largely overtook Old English forspillan and wēstan.
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