Wastes Synonyms and Antonyms

Refuse
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. squanders
  2. scraps
  3. extravagancies
  4. extravagances
To use without result
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dissipates
  2. squanders
  3. misapplies
  4. misuses
  5. loses
  6. consumes
  7. devours
  8. spends
Antonyms:
  1. profits
Spend extravagantly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. squanders
  2. blows
  3. consumes
  4. dissipates
Antonyms:
  1. conserves
To cause the death of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. zaps
  2. slays
  3. kills
  4. finishes
  5. dispatches
  6. destroys
To do away with completely and destructively
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swallows
  2. eats
  3. devours
  4. consumes
To fail to take advantage of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. misses
  2. loses
To lose strength or power.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. weakens
  2. wanes
  3. sinks
  4. languishes
  5. flags
  6. fails
  7. fades
  8. deteriorates
  9. degenerates
To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wiles
  2. kills
  3. idles
  4. dawdles
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. liquidates
  2. neutralizes

Words Related to Wastes

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Wastes Sentence Examples

  • Except in the river valleys it is a poor territory, rough and mountainous towards the south, but subsiding into undulating wastes and pasture-lands towards the Turkman desert, and the Oxus riverain which is highly cultivated.

  • The list of reptiles includes the venomous Vipera ammodytes and Pelias berus, while scorpions and lizards infest the stony wastes of the Karst.

  • Fortified by these resolves he betook himself to a hermit life in the wastes of Chalcis, S.E.

  • Physical symptoms also appear; the face assumes an earthy colour, the body wastes, constipation is usually present to an extreme degree, the secretions become arrested, loss of appetite and indigestion follow and the mouth is parched.

  • Long (1819) tended to confirm old ideas of sandy wastes west of the Mississippi.

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