waste

noun
/ˈweɪ̯st/

excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.

Other meanings

excrement or urine.
“The cage was littered with animal waste.”
A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.

Example sentences

“It was a huge waste of time.”
Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0
“Pollution had turned the rivers into toxic waste.”
Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
“It's a waste of your life.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Middle English "wast".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “waste” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.