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Word entry · 5 letters

waste

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"Use carelessly"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈweɪ̯st/Part of speech verb, noun, adjectiveSorted aestwStarts with WEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. become physically weaker

Word origin

From Middle English wast, waste (“a waste”, noun), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast, waste (“a waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“a waste”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstaz, *wōstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”).

Used in a sentence

  • The cage was littered with animal waste.
  • We went down accordingly into the waste, and began to make our toilsome and devious travel towards the eastern verge.
  • The pampas of Argentina and the chilly wastes of Patagonia, like the prairies and deserts of North America, were largely shunned by Spanish settlers until the 1870s.

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