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Garbage
Garbage, trash, rubbish, or refuse is waste material that is discarded by humans, usually due to a perceived lack of utility. The term generally does not encompass bodily waste products, purely liquid or gaseous wastes, nor toxic waste products. Garbage is commonly sorted and classified into kinds of material suitable for specific kinds of disposal.
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Waste
Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use.
Examples include municipal solid waste (household trash/refuse), hazardous waste, wastewater (such as sewage, which contains bodily wastes (feces and urine) and surface runoff), radioactive waste, and others.
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Garbage (noun)
The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
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Garbage (noun)
Food waste material of any kind.
“Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays”
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Garbage (noun)
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
“The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.”
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Garbage (noun)
A place or receptacle for waste material.
“He threw the newspaper into the garbage.”
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Garbage (noun)
Nonsense; gibberish.
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Garbage (noun)
Something or someone worthless.
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Garbage (verb)
to eviscerate
“disembowel|eviscerate|gut”
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Waste (noun)
Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
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Waste (noun)
Excrement or urine.
“The cage was littered with animal waste”
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Waste (noun)
A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
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Waste (noun)
A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
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Waste (noun)
A large tract of uncultivated land.
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Waste (noun)
The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
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Waste (noun)
A vast expanse of water.
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Waste (noun)
A disused mine or part of one.
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Waste (noun)
The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
“That was a waste of time”
“Her life seemed a waste”
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Waste (noun)
Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
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Waste (noun)
Gradual loss or decay.
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Waste (noun)
A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
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Waste (noun)
Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See “to lay waste”
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Waste (noun)
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.
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Waste (noun)
Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
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Waste (adjective)
Uncultivated, uninhabited.
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Waste (adjective)
Barren; desert.
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Waste (adjective)
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
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Waste (adjective)
Superfluous; needless.
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Waste (adjective)
Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
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Waste (adjective)
Unfortunate; disappointing. en
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Waste (verb)
to devastate, destroy
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Waste (verb)
To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
“We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.”
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Waste (verb)
To kill; to murder.
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Waste (verb)
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
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Waste (verb)
Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
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Waste (verb)
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
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Waste (verb)
To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
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Garbage (noun)
rubbish or waste, especially domestic refuse
“a garbage dump”
“garbage littered the estate”
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Garbage (noun)
worthless or meaningless material or ideas; rubbish
“a store full of overpriced garbage”
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Garbage (noun)
unwanted data in a computer’s memory.
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Waste (verb)
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?”
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Waste (verb)
expend on an unappreciative recipient
“her small talk was wasted on this guest”
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Waste (verb)
fail to make full or good use of
“we’re wasted in this job”
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Waste (verb)
deliberately dispose of (surplus stock)
“20% of stock will need to be wasted”
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Waste (verb)
(of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated
“she was visibly wasting away”
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Waste (verb)
make progressively weaker and more emaciated
“these symptoms wasted the patients very much”
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Waste (verb)
devastate or ruin (a place)
“he seized their cattle and wasted their country”
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Waste (verb)
kill or severely injure (someone)
“I saw them waste the guy I worked for”
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Waste (verb)
(of time) pass away
“the years were wasting”
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Waste (adjective)
(of a material, substance, or by-product) 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”
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Waste (adjective)
(of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on
“a patch of waste ground”
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Waste (noun)
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”
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Waste (noun)
the gradual loss or diminution of something
“he was pale and weak from waste of blood”
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Waste (noun)
unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products
“nuclear waste”
“hazardous industrial wastes”
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Waste (noun)
a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land
“the icy wastes of the Antarctic”
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Waste (noun)
damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.