Word Finder - wastes

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

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Excrement or urine.

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The cage was littered with animal waste

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A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.

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A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.

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A large tract of uncultivated land.

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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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A vast expanse of water.

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A disused mine or part of one.

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The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.

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Her life seemed a waste

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Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.

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Gradual loss or decay.

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A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.

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Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"

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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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Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.

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To devastate, destroy

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To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.

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We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.

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To kill; to murder.

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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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Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.

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To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.

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To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

Except in the river valleys it is a poor territory, rough and mountainous towards the south, but subsiding into undulating wastes and pasture-lands towards the Turkman desert, and the Oxus riverain which is highly cultivated.

The list of reptiles includes the venomous Vipera ammodytes and Pelias berus, while scorpions and lizards infest the stony wastes of the Karst.

Fortified by these resolves he betook himself to a hermit life in the wastes of Chalcis, S.E.

Physical symptoms also appear; the face assumes an earthy colour, the body wastes, constipation is usually present to an extreme degree, the secretions become arrested, loss of appetite and indigestion follow and the mouth is parched.

Long (1819) tended to confirm old ideas of sandy wastes west of the Mississippi.

Between the arid and sandy northern wastes and the well-watered and arable Sudanese lands there is a transitional zone of level grassy steppes (partly covered with mimosas and acacias) with a mean breadth of about 60 m.

The forests which once covered the mountains have for the most part disappeared and the slopes are now desolate wastes.

From here it flows southwards through little-known mountain wastes.

They were attempts to arrive at a true knowledge of the relationships of animals by " royal roads "; their followers were landed in barren wastes.

It wastes in the disease known as " myxoedema," and the above product gathers in the tissues, in that disease, to such an extent as to give rise to what has been termed a " solid oedema."

They may, on the petition of a district council, transfer to themselves the powers of a district council who have refused or failed to take the necessary proceedings to assert public rights of way or protect roadside wastes.

Katla caused very serious destruction in this way by converting several cultivated districts into barren wastes.

Uncontrolled burning or burying of farm wastes is no longer permitted.

Composting is the aerobic process by which biologically degradable wastes are broken down to form a stable material containing organic matter and plant nutrients.

The EU landfill directive aims to divert wastes from landfills and will also influence the increase in the number of incinerators.

The lower rate of tax, which applies to inactive wastes disposed at landfill, remains at £ 2 per ton.

Waste treatment plants remove some of the most poisonous wastes from sewage, but most treated sewage still contains material harmful to the ocean.

Such wastes include used hypodermic syringes frequently with a needle still attached and small vessels or vials that contained medicines (drugs ).

Water recirculation technology provides optimal growing conditions for livestock, to prevent both disease and the discharge of wastes back to the environment.

Furthermore, microwave induced pyrolysis has also proven to be a very useful process to treat some real plastic wastes.

The remainder is made up of construction and demolition wastes, mining and agricultural wastes, sewage sludge and dredged spoils.

This applies to soft vegetables as well as tougher wastes such as cabbage stalks or twiggy material.

The Beast Gods The nomadic tribesmen of the Northern Wastes worship animal totems, which differ between tribes.

A transposition note has been prepared setting out the transposition note has been prepared setting out the transposition of the Hazardous Waste Directive and the List of Wastes Decision.

In a thousand industries the profits of to-day are wrung from the wastes or unconsidered trifles of yesterday.

Iran has acknowledged the production of uranium metal, uranyl nitrate, ammonium uranyl carbonate, UO2 pellets and uranium wastes.

This would be the first time a submarine has been dismantled with some of the most radioactive wastes being stored at Rosyth.

Combining Wastes from Ranges of Washbasins A 50mm waste pipe is normally used to connect the waste pipes from several washbasins together.

There are stony wastes, or alluvial fans, where mountain streams emerge upon the plains, in time of flood, bringing detritus in their torrential courses from the mountain canyons and depositing it along the mountain base.

The question at once arises, Can the simple historic faith be maintained without adding theological interpretations, those arid wastes of dogma in which the springs of faith and reverence run dry?

In July and, August the plains of New Castile and Estremadura are sunburnt wastes; the roads are several inches deep with dust; the leaves of the few trees are withered and discoloured; the atmosphere is filled with a fine dust, producing a haze known as calina, which converts the blue of the sky into a dull grey.

This is for their work on microwave-induced pyrolysis of plastic and aluminum laminate wastes.

Recycling of household wastes has been increasing during recent years to about 61 %.

A problem is likely to be the UK 's policy of returning reprocessing wastes to the country of origin.

This trade has allowed for suitable wastes to be reprocessed overseas to the benefit of the global economy and also the environment.

The proposed plant will work with wastes from the reprocessing of fuel at Dounreay.

David Bones has done a wonderful job of shredding the woody wastes as fast as they accumulate.

A transposition note has been prepared setting out the transposition of the Hazardous Waste Directive and the List of Wastes Decision.

I have murky recollections of asphalt wastes patrolled by fierce, bulky boys smelling of penny chews and unwashed clothes.

The 192 containers of vitrified wastes are on board the Pacific Swan, which is owned by British Nuclear Fuels.

Also known as greywater, gray water consists of all wastewater other than toilet and kitchen sink and food wastes from garbage disposals.

Do your part by taking your own trash, other wastes and any you see to a nearby disposal facility.

Main types of water pollution include disease-causing agents, oxygen-demanding wastes, inorganic pollutants, nutrients, organic compounds, suspended sediment, and radioactive compounds.

Oxygen-demanding wastes are decomposed by bacteria that require oxygen to function.

The kidneys filter the blood and shuttle wastes out of the body through the urine.

While kidney cleansing or detoxification is not as well known perhaps as liver or colon cleansing, the kidneys are also an important organ for removing toxins and wastes from the body.

The palette wastes some valuable space by only fitting three color pans into its page.

Debates over whether or not playing online games wastes time are diminished when children play educational games free online.

This way, you get exactly what you want and no one wastes money buying something you will never use or wear!

Marasmus can be caused by being weaned very early and not adequately fed afterwards; if the intake of calories and protein is limited severely enough, the body wastes away.