waste is on the Basic English 850 List.
wash - waste - watch
waste is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
wash - waste - watch

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Plain form
waste

Third-person singular
wastes

Past tense
wasted

Past participle
wasted

Present participle
wasting

  1. To use something for no reason, or for bad reasons or only little reasons, and after it is used no one can use it again.
    He wasted the food by making it dirty.

Noun change

Singular
waste

Plural
wastes

Waste is on the Academic Vocabulary List.
  1. Things that are not useful; things that people want to take out of their house.

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