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waste
adjective
1. Excreted from the body: waste matter.
2. Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless: waste trimmings.
3. Used as a conveyance or container for refuse: a waste bin.
4. Being wild and uninhabited.
5. Not cultivated not productive.
noun
1. A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.
2. A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.
3. An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product.
4. Garbage; trash.
5. Something, such as steam, that escapes without being used.
verb
1. To lay waste.
2. To damage or destroy gradually and progressively.
3. To cause to shrink in physical bulk or strength.
4. To wear away or diminish gradually.
5. To spend or use carelessly.
verb-intransitive
1. To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor; become weak or enfeebled: wasting away from an illness.
2. To pass without being put to use: Time is wasting.
verb-transitive
1. Slang To kill; murder.
2. To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble: Disease wasted his body.
3. To destroy completely.
4. To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose: waste an opportunity.
5. To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.
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Top Words by points |
Points |
Word Game |
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sweat | 8 |
Scrabble |
2 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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as | 2 |
we | 5 |
te | 2 |
ta | 2 |
ew | 5 |
et | 2 |
es | 2 |
ae | 2 |
at | 2 |
aw | 5 |
3 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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taw | 6 |
ats | 3 |
wet | 6 |
wat | 6 |
was | 6 |
wae | 6 |
twa | 6 |
tew | 6 |
tes | 3 |
tea | 3 |
tas | 3 |
tae | 3 |
sew | 6 |
eta | 3 |
est | 3 |
eat | 3 |
ate | 3 |
set | 3 |
sea | 3 |
saw | 6 |
sat | 3 |
awe | 6 |
sae | 3 |
4 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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twae | 7 |
teas | 4 |
twas | 7 |
waes | 7 |
wast | 7 |
wats | 7 |
west | 7 |
weta | 7 |
wets | 7 |
ates | 4 |
taws | 7 |
sate | 4 |
seat | 4 |
seta | 4 |
staw | 7 |
stew | 7 |
swat | 7 |
awes | 7 |
etas | 4 |
eats | 4 |
east | 4 |
tase | 4 |
tews | 7 |
5 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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sweat | 8 |
twaes | 8 |
tawse | 8 |
waste | 8 |
wetas | 8 |