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waste in English:

1. squander squander


The home team squandered a number of chances in the first half.
Fearing his money would be squandered by his family, he gave all of it to charity when he died.
Adam didn't squander his money, he invested it in shares and property.
and we squander them pretty ruthlessly
squandered he truth from all we said
Entrepreneurs squander their profits on expensive cars

English word "waste"(squander) occurs in sets:

SSAT vocab cards

2. wasteful wasteful


a wasteful use of resources
He understood the negative outcomes of being wasteful.

English word "waste"(wasteful) occurs in sets:

make adjective

3. rubbish rubbish


plastic rubbish
I sat there and listened to all that rubbish he came up with about the company.
The richer the city, the more rubbish it generates.
We are all nature lovers and while wandering we would like to clean up the rubbish left behind by thoughtless tourists.
It seems I've got a little tipsy. Sorry to have talked rubbish...
It's difficult to tell which is which for burnable and non-burnable rubbish as well, isn't it?
They looked at the rubbish, then they looked at each other.
Moreover it's difficult to get rubbish out for garbage day because the collection time is too early.
The guard's truncheon hit air. Off balance, he regained his posture to see a metal-mesh rubbish bin flying towards him.
Wayne Rooney is a rubbish player.
The man will take all your rubbish if you leave it outside.
Your room is so dirty, there is rubbish everywhere!
That's just a lot of rubbish. Do you really think I'm gonna believe it?
I was told that my research was rubbish and that I had stolen most of the data I used in it.
To be honest. I think it’s total rubbish.

English word "waste"(rubbish) occurs in sets:

Giganci altruiści

4. dangerous rubbish dangerous rubbish



5. i often spend money on stupid things i often spend money on stupid things



6. to spend money or time in a way that is not useful to spend money or time in a way that is not useful



English word "waste"(to spend money or time in a way that is not useful) occurs in sets:

5th year. unit 3: money and shopping

7. corrode corrode


He was corroded by guilt.
Sitting in salt water, the old coins corroded and became very easy to break
The substance can irritate or corrode the skin, eyes, or mucous membranes.

8. loss loss


A loss in third-quarter revenues was predicted.
Blindness is responsible for a staggering toll of poor health, suffering, and loss of dignity and diminution in the quality of lives of people worldwide.
at a loss
I had been at a loss as to what career to decide on, but your advice has helped me to see the light regarding my future.
Pet loss refers to the reactions of shock and anger that occur in owners who have been bereaved of their pets.
According to him, the president must not be turned into a caricature, the loss of authority and public order cannot be borne.
Without loss of generality, we can say that the sequence converges to zero.
The loss of childhood spontaneity has caused widespread concern, as well as calls for review of the nation's educational and social structures.
In the English world of the 19th century, it was often said that masturbation would lead to a loss of memory and attention.
It is the drop in the rice pricing (blamed on consumers' loss of interest in rice and the freeing up of the international market) that is the cause.
I was extremely disappointed to see our national soccer team suffer a historic loss.
If the partnership makes a loss, which is opposite of a profit, the losses are ussually divided in the same proportion as the profits.
Due to ill-health of the web-manager, loss of motivation and other circumstances I have decided that it is not possible to continue.
That young man can't get the sort of jobs he wants and doesn't have any friends; he's really at a loss.
Stop maize monoculture, and reestablish multiple cropping, to combat the loss of landscape and soil diversity.

9. waste of waste of