Definitions of waste on the Web:
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
- use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
- get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
- run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"
- neutralize: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
- consume: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"
- pine away: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
- cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
- thriftlessness: the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
- lay waste to: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- barren: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
- become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
According to Google, the definition of "fat" is:
Definitions of fat on the Web:
- having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
- having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"
- a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat"
- fatty: containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue"
- adipose tissue: a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
- lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"
- fatten: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
- fatness: excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others"
- marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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