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noun
- (uncountable) Unoriginality; triteness.
- (countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
- (uncountable) Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.
- (countable) A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
- a trite or obvious remark
noun
- (uncountable) The condition of being miscellaneous, of being a hodgepodge.
- (countable) An assortment of miscellaneous items.
- (countable) A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
noun
- (uncountable) Lack of pertinence; irrelevance.
- (countable, uncountable) Insolence; impudence.
- (uncountable) The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness.
- (countable) An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent.
- the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
- an impudent statement
- inappropriate playfulness
noun
- (uncountable) Nonsense.
- (countable) A light parody.
- (countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.
- (countable, British, historical) A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
- (computing) A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Semen.
- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
adj
verb
noun
noun
- (uncountable, informal) Nonsense.
- (mathematics, uncountable) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
- (informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
- (US, cooking) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
- (literally) The light of the moon.
- whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
- the light of the Moon
verb
noun
noun
- (uncountable) Disposition to do good.
- (uncountable) Charitable kindness.
- (countable) An altruistic gift or act.
- (UK, historical) A kind of forced loan or contribution levied by kings without legal authority, first so called under Edward IV in 1473.
- disposition to do good
- an inclination to do kind or charitable acts
- an act intending or showing kindness and good will
noun
- (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
- (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
- lack of an adequate quantity or number
noun
- (uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
- (countable, logic, propositional logic) A statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables.
- (countable, logic, first-order logic) A statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.
- (countable) An expression that features tautology.
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
- useless and pointless repetition
noun
- (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand;
- Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
- A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.
- charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
verb
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
- (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
- (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
- (transitive) To accuse.
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)
- make a charge against or accuse
- levy a tax on
- use to the limit
noun
- (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
- (uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- (countable) A hot spell.
- (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- (countable, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
- (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
- (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- (slang, endearing) The arousal or horniness of a person, likened to that of a mammal.
- (uncountable) Thermal energy.
- (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- (uncountable, slang) The police.
- (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
- (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
- (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
- a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- the presence of heat
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
- utility to warm a building
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- (intransitive) To become hotter.
- provide with heat
- gain heat or get hot
- make hot or hotter
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
noun
- (uncountable) Importance.
- (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
- Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
- An approximate amount or extent.
- (physics) Anything with mass and volume.
- (countable, law) Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.
- An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
- A kind of substance.
- (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
- some situation or event that is thought about
- written works (especially in books or magazines)
- a problem
- a vaguely specified concern
- (used with negation) having consequence
- that which has mass and occupies space
verb
noun
noun
noun
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
- repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
- repetition of an act needlessly
- (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
- (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
- (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
- The state of being redundant.
noun
- (uncountable) Nothingness, vanity, emptiness.
- (uncountable) Secrecy; concealment.
- (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
- (uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
- (uncountable) Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.
- (uncountable, countable) Any space that such colour pervades.
- (uncountable) Hell.
- (uncountable) Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.
- (countable) The product of being dark.
- absence of light or illumination
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- a swarthy complexion
- an unenlightened state
- having a dark or somber color
noun
- (uncountable) The state of having many examples or cases; abundance; profusion.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being rich; wealthiness, wealth, riches.
- (countable) The result or product of being rich.
- (ecology) The number of types in a community.
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
- the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing
- a strong deep vividness of hue
- the quality of having high intrinsic value
- splendid or imposing in size or appearance
- abundant wealth
- the property of being extremely abundant
adj
noun
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
verb
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
noun
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (countable) An experience.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
intj
verb
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
- assign a time for an activity or event
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
noun
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Unoriginality; triteness.
- (countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
- (uncountable) Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.
- (countable) A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
- a trite or obvious remark
noun
- (uncountable) The condition of being miscellaneous, of being a hodgepodge.
- (countable) An assortment of miscellaneous items.
- (countable) A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
noun
- (uncountable) Lack of pertinence; irrelevance.
- (countable, uncountable) Insolence; impudence.
- (uncountable) The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness.
- (countable) An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent.
- the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
- an impudent statement
- inappropriate playfulness
noun
- (uncountable) Nonsense.
- (countable) A light parody.
- (countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.
- (countable, British, historical) A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
- (computing) A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Semen.
- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
adj
verb
noun
noun
- (uncountable, informal) Nonsense.
- (mathematics, uncountable) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
- (informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
- (US, cooking) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
- (literally) The light of the moon.
- whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
- the light of the Moon
verb
noun
noun
- (uncountable) Disposition to do good.
- (uncountable) Charitable kindness.
- (countable) An altruistic gift or act.
- (UK, historical) A kind of forced loan or contribution levied by kings without legal authority, first so called under Edward IV in 1473.
- disposition to do good
- an inclination to do kind or charitable acts
- an act intending or showing kindness and good will
noun
- (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
- (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
- lack of an adequate quantity or number
noun
- (uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
- (countable, logic, propositional logic) A statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables.
- (countable, logic, first-order logic) A statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.
- (countable) An expression that features tautology.
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
- useless and pointless repetition
noun
- (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand;
- Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
- A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.
- charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
verb
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
- (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
- (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
- (transitive) To accuse.
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)
- make a charge against or accuse
- levy a tax on
- use to the limit
noun
- (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
- (uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- (countable) A hot spell.
- (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- (countable, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
- (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
- (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- (slang, endearing) The arousal or horniness of a person, likened to that of a mammal.
- (uncountable) Thermal energy.
- (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- (uncountable, slang) The police.
- (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
- (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
- (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
- a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- the presence of heat
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
- utility to warm a building
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- (intransitive) To become hotter.
- provide with heat
- gain heat or get hot
- make hot or hotter
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
noun
- (uncountable) Importance.
- (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
- Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
- An approximate amount or extent.
- (physics) Anything with mass and volume.
- (countable, law) Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.
- An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
- A kind of substance.
- (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
- some situation or event that is thought about
- written works (especially in books or magazines)
- a problem
- a vaguely specified concern
- (used with negation) having consequence
- that which has mass and occupies space
verb
noun
noun
noun
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
- repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
- repetition of an act needlessly
- (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
- (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
- (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
- The state of being redundant.
noun
- (uncountable) Nothingness, vanity, emptiness.
- (uncountable) Secrecy; concealment.
- (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
- (uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
- (uncountable) Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.
- (uncountable, countable) Any space that such colour pervades.
- (uncountable) Hell.
- (uncountable) Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.
- (countable) The product of being dark.
- absence of light or illumination
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- a swarthy complexion
- an unenlightened state
- having a dark or somber color
noun
- (uncountable) The state of having many examples or cases; abundance; profusion.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being rich; wealthiness, wealth, riches.
- (countable) The result or product of being rich.
- (ecology) The number of types in a community.
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
- the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing
- a strong deep vividness of hue
- the quality of having high intrinsic value
- splendid or imposing in size or appearance
- abundant wealth
- the property of being extremely abundant
noun
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (countable) An experience.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
intj
verb
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
- assign a time for an activity or event
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
noun
noun
adj
verb
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adj
noun
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
verb
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief