搜尋結果
waste
- IPA[wāst]
美式
- use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose;bestow or expend on an unappreciative recipient
- (of a material, substance, or byproduct) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process;(of an area of land, typically in a city or town) not used, cultivated, or built on
- an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose;the gradual loss or diminution of something
verb: waste, 3rd person present: wastes, gerund or present participle: wasting, past tense: wasted, past participle: wasted
noun: waste, plural noun: wastes
- 釋義
- 片語
動詞
- 1. use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose we can't afford to waste electricity I don't use the car, so why should I waste precious money on it? 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ bestow or expend on an unappreciative recipient her small talk was wasted on this guest
- ▪ fail to make full or good use of we're wasted in this job
- 2. (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated she was visibly wasting away 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ archaic make progressively weaker and more emaciated these symptoms wasted the patients very much
- 3. literary devastate or ruin (a place) he seized their cattle and wasted their country
- ▪ North American informal kill or severely injure (someone) I saw them waste the guy I worked for 同義詞
- 4. literary (of time) pass away; be spent the years were wasting
形容詞
- 1. (of a material, substance, or byproduct) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly plants produce oxygen as a waste product 同義詞 反義詞
- 2. (of an area of land, typically in a city or town) not used, cultivated, or built on a patch of waste ground 同義詞 反義詞
名詞
- 1. an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose it's a waste of time trying to argue with him they had learned to avoid waste 同義詞
- ▪ archaic the gradual loss or diminution of something he was pale and weak from waste of blood
- 2. material that is not wanted; the unusable remains or byproducts of something bodily waste hazardous industrial wastes 同義詞
- 3. a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land the icy wastes of the Antarctic 同義詞
- 4. damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life-tenant.