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WASTEverb: waste; 3rd person present: wastes; past tense: wasted; past participle: wasted; gerund or present participle: wasting.

1. (of an area of land, typically an urban one) Not used, cultivated, or built on. “a patch of waste ground”. 2. Use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose. “we can’t afford to waste electricity”. 3. (of time) Pass away. “the years were wasting”.

Synonyms: uncultivated, barren, desert, unproductive, infertile, unfruitful, arid, bare; desolate, solitary, lonely, empty, void, uninhabited, unpopulated; wildsquander, fritter away, misspend, misuse, spend recklessly, throw away, lavish, be wasteful with, dissipate, spend like water, throw around like confetti; go through, run through, exhaust, drain, deplete, burn up, use up, consume; informal blow, splurge.

Origin: Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e ) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.

9990 Paper waste collected at the studio, 2007
9990 Collected wooden waste at the studio, 2007
9990 Blanket scraps to be re-used, 2007
3108 Construction of the model for Travels through Paradise, 2007
3054 Tree Trunk Bench for de Sterrenkijker under construction, 2004
1001 Indian woman sweeping the street, 2002
4044 Detail of the Dustpan of the Cleanliness is next to Godliness series, 2007
3402 The Compost Kliko Toilet on show in the Cube Design Museum, 2017
3402 Illustration of the Compost Kliko Toilet’s possible uses, 2017
4044 Draft of a napkin for the Cleanliness is next to Godliness Series, 2007
4030 The collection of Dust Furniture assembled, 2004
3129 Brinta House being constructed, 2008
3294 Students of the Summer School collecting waste, 2012
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