material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"

dross, impurity - worthless material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water"

exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes - gases ejected from an engine as waste products

body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product, excretion - waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

filth, skank, crud - any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant

sewage, sewerage - waste matter carried away in sewers or drains

effluent, sewer water, wastewater - water mixed with waste matter

food waste, garbage, refuse, scraps - food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

pollutant - waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil

rubbish, trash, scrap - worthless material that is to be disposed of

toxic industrial waste, toxic waste - poisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means)

boondoggle - work of little or no value done merely to look busy

activity - any specific activity; "they avoided all recreational activity"

waste of effort, waste of energy - a useless effort

waste of material - a useless consumption of material

waste of money - money spent for inadequate return; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money"

waste of time - the devotion of time to a useless activity; "the waste of time could prove fatal"

high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality, extravagance - excessive spending

squandering - spending resources lavishly and wastefully; "more wasteful than the squandering of time"

improvidence, shortsightedness - a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources

heathland, heath - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation

wilderness, wild - a wild and uninhabited area

human action, human activity, act - something that people do or cause to happen

jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

expend, use - use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions"

blow - spend lavishly or wastefully on; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater"

burn - spend (significant amounts of money); "He has money to burn"

apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize - put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't make use of this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

chuck out, discard, cast aside, cast away, throw away, toss away, toss out, put away, throw out, cast out, dispose, fling, toss - throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"

course, flow, run, feed - move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"

fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, fool, dissipate, shoot - spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"

luxuriate, wanton - become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously

lavish, shower - expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise"

overspend - spend at a high rate

expend, spend, drop - pay out; "spend money"

splurge, fling - indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV"

weaken - become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"

debilitate, enfeeble, drain - make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"

ruin, destroy - destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"

ruin - reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war"

degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop - grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"

gangrene, necrose, sphacelate, mortify - undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"

useless - having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"

inhospitable - unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"