Clues for the word "WASTE"
We've had 135 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 368 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on March 31, 2024.
Definition of waste
- a. - Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
- a. - Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
- a. - Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
- a. - To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
- a. - To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- a. - 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.
- a. - To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
- v. i. - To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
- v. i. - To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
- v. - 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.
- v. - 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.
- v. - 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.
- v. - 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.
- v. - Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
Referring Clues
- Futile effort
- It may be toxic
- Fritter away
- Nonrecyclables
- What's not used
- Not be frugal
- Trash
- "___ not, want not"
- Spill
- Refuse
- Devastate
- Watermelon rind, e.g.
- Garbage
- Squander
- Use inefficiently, as time
- Bump off
- Lay ___ to (destroy)
- Lack of economy
- Much of Siberia
- Use inefficiently
- Disposable stuff
- Blow, as dough
- Coffee grounds and orange peels, typically
- Sewage
- Scrap
- Destroy
- Useless venture
- Toxic ___
- Use unwisely
- Stuff to discard
- Underutilize
- Leavings
- Needless expenditure
- It's thrown into baskets
- Fail to utilize
- Unnecessary cost
- Disposed material
- Discard
- Disposal input
- Expend recklessly
- It may be radioactive
- Toxic ___
- Don't use
- Not be economical
- Fail to recycle
- Compost heap detritus
- Word with time and space
- Profligacy
- Extravagance
- Haste result
- Haste outcome
- Detritus
- Fritter away, as time
- Stuff in a basket
- Be uneconomical
- Spend thoughtlessly
- Stuff in the trash
- Squander resources
- Spendthrift's specialty
- Barren region
- What haste makes
- Offscourings
- It may be hazardous
- Industrial rubbush
- Use unwisely, as time
- Ice
- Spend foolishly
- Rubbish
- Fail to put to good use
- Throwaways
- "Haste makes ___"
- Use up needlessly
- Fail to recycle, say
- Toxic stuff
- Not use efficiently
- Trash or compost
- Type of basket
- Was Lawrence in the desert?
- Making a stew may be a profitless activity
- Useless expenditure in central region, by the sound of it
- Disposable Phish song off "Billy Breathes"?
- Norma Jean "Memphis Will Be Laid to ___"
- Radiohead fan club that throws it all away?
- Sweat (anag)
- Throw away thoughtlessly
- Middle (reportedly) of desert
- Spend to no purpose
- Desolate area in Wild West
- Sweat is such a product
- This desert used to be part of Texas
- Blow - rubbish
- Rubbish sci-fi film watched after promotion
- Refuse the middle, say
- Fail to use (profitably)
- Refuse to be followed by 3, say?
- Non-recyclables
- Something hastily made?
- Bin contents
- Don't use the tawse indiscriminately
- Effluent from Iowa steelworks
- Refuse to prepare a stew
- Superfluous part of the body for hearing
- Atrophy
- Kill with a sawn-off gun
- Used some fretsaws the wrong way, producing rubbish
- Spotted back there tipping her refuse
- Spotted over there getting rid of her rubbish
- Refuse to kill
- Run through desert
- Uneconomic activity reported in the centre
- Nuclear headache
- Misspend
- Cook a stew that is never eaten
- Not use entirely
- Fail to make use of
- To squander
- Was Lawrence in the desert?
- Proverbial result of 28 Across
- Basket contents, perhaps
- It might be toxic
- Outcome of haste, it's said
- Garbage scow's haul
- A desert space centre in the wild West
- What haste makes, they say
- Spend futilely
- Refuse to throw out?
- Word before "paper" or "pipe"
- A throwaway copy of '1 Down'
- Point to a broken seat you can't properly use
- Compost, e.g.
- Throw it away
- Use inefficiently, like time
- Eggshells and coffee grounds, typically
- "What a ___ of money!"
- "What a ___!"
Last Seen In
- LA Times - March 31, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 16, 2024
- Daily American - February 20, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 07, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 19, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 17, 2023
- Your Life Choices - December 10, 2023
- Your Life Choices - November 29, 2023
- Your Life Choices - October 24, 2023
- LA Times - October 10, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 03, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 01, 2023
- USA Today - September 30, 2023
- USA Today - September 15, 2023
- LA Times - September 15, 2023
- Daily Quick - September 10, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 04, 2023
- Daily American - August 02, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 21, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 16, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 03, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - June 21, 2023
- Mirror Daily - June 19, 2023
- New York Times - June 18, 2023
- Daily American - June 14, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 12, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - May 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - May 16, 2023
- And in 338 more crossword puzzles...