Clues for the word "WASTE"
We've had 138 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 414 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on December 17, 2025.
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 ___!"
- In cooking stew, a misuse
- What haste makes, it's said
- Debris
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - December 17, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 10, 2025
- LA Times - August 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 04, 2025
- New York Times - August 03, 2025
- Daily American - August 02, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 16, 2025
- Daily American - June 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 12, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 16, 2025
- LA Times - May 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 22, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 17, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 08, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 17, 2025
- Daily American - December 31, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 17, 2024
- USA Today - December 15, 2024
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