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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
adj
noun
- A hyperbole: excessiveness.
- (literature, art) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
- A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
- An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
- (literature, art) A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
- (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
- Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
- Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
- insincere pathos
- triteness or triviality of style
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
adj
- Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.
- Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.
- (networking, of topology) Containing duplicate pathways to send a message.
- (of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
- (chiefly British, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia) Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
- repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words
- more than is needed, desired, or required
noun
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
- 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.
- 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
- Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
- Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
- Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.
- the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
- the trait of spending extravagantly
- the activity of excessive spending
adj
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
noun
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
verb
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
- give up what is not strictly needed
- use frugally or carefully
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
noun
adj
- (figuratively, by extension) Excessive in some respect (without any implication of having been tuned).
- Of a string or string instrument: tuned so as to be excessively tight.
- Of an engine: tuned so as to be more powerful than intended by the manufacturer.
- Of a sense or mode of perception: trained so as to be excessively sensitive.
- (video games) Of a raid or similar challenge: excessively difficult.
- (video games) Of a character, item, ability, etc.: excessively powerful; overpowered.
- Tuned or adjusted so as to be excessive (in terms of some quality), especially:
verb
verb
noun
- (by extension) An unnecessary excess of whatever is needed to achieve a goal.
- (manufacturing) An unnecessary excess of disposal because of too high criteria of inspection.
- (literally) Destruction beyond what is necessary to kill, especially in murder.
- (literally, military) A destructive capacity that exceeds that needed to destroy an enemy; especially with nuclear weapons.
- any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal
- the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required
verb
noun
- Excess; a state of being more than it ought to be.
- A surplus of inventory or capacity or of cash that is greater than the amount in the record of an account.
- (property law) Any additional sums payable following the purchase of land, calculated on a prearranged basis, on the occurrence of certain specified events that are deemed to increase the value of that land; usually in the context of the development and further sale of that land.
- a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations
adj
verb
prep_phrase
adv
adj
prep_phrase
adj
- Trifling; unimportant; insignificant.
- Of slender build.
- Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful.
- (regional) Even, smooth or level.
- Not thorough; superficial.
- (especially said of the sea) Still; with little or no movement on the surface.
- being of delicate or slender build
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- lacking substance or significance
noun
verb
- (transitive, military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
- (transitive) To treat (someone or something) with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully; to skimp on one's duties toward.
- (transitive) To throw heedlessly.
- (transitive) To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
- (intransitive) To act negligently or carelessly.
- (transitive) To give lesser weight or importance to.
- pay no attention to, disrespect
noun
verb
noun
- A hyperbole: excessiveness.
- (literature, art) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
- A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
- An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
- (literature, art) A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
- (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
- Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
- Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
- insincere pathos
- triteness or triviality of style
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
noun
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
- 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.
- 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
- Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
- Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
- Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.
- the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
- the trait of spending extravagantly
- the activity of excessive spending
noun
noun
- (by extension) An unnecessary excess of whatever is needed to achieve a goal.
- (manufacturing) An unnecessary excess of disposal because of too high criteria of inspection.
- (literally) Destruction beyond what is necessary to kill, especially in murder.
- (literally, military) A destructive capacity that exceeds that needed to destroy an enemy; especially with nuclear weapons.
- any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal
- the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required
verb
noun
- Excess; a state of being more than it ought to be.
- A surplus of inventory or capacity or of cash that is greater than the amount in the record of an account.
- (property law) Any additional sums payable following the purchase of land, calculated on a prearranged basis, on the occurrence of certain specified events that are deemed to increase the value of that land; usually in the context of the development and further sale of that land.
- a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations
adj
verb
noun
verb
verb
adv
adj
prep_phrase
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
adj
adj
- Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.
- Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.
- (networking, of topology) Containing duplicate pathways to send a message.
- (of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
- (chiefly British, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia) Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
- repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words
- more than is needed, desired, or required
adj
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
noun
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
verb
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
- give up what is not strictly needed
- use frugally or carefully
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
adj
- (figuratively, by extension) Excessive in some respect (without any implication of having been tuned).
- Of a string or string instrument: tuned so as to be excessively tight.
- Of an engine: tuned so as to be more powerful than intended by the manufacturer.
- Of a sense or mode of perception: trained so as to be excessively sensitive.
- (video games) Of a raid or similar challenge: excessively difficult.
- (video games) Of a character, item, ability, etc.: excessively powerful; overpowered.
- Tuned or adjusted so as to be excessive (in terms of some quality), especially:
verb
adj
- Trifling; unimportant; insignificant.
- Of slender build.
- Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful.
- (regional) Even, smooth or level.
- Not thorough; superficial.
- (especially said of the sea) Still; with little or no movement on the surface.
- being of delicate or slender build
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- lacking substance or significance
noun
verb
- (transitive, military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
- (transitive) To treat (someone or something) with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully; to skimp on one's duties toward.
- (transitive) To throw heedlessly.
- (transitive) To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
- (intransitive) To act negligently or carelessly.
- (transitive) To give lesser weight or importance to.
- pay no attention to, disrespect