smoke vs waste

smoke

verb
  • To kill, especially with a gun. 

  • To dry or medicate by smoke. 

  • To give off smoke. 

  • To burn; to be kindled; to rage. 

  • To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. 

  • To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning. 

  • To suffer severely; to be punished. 

  • To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke. 

  • To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke. 

  • To beat someone at something. 

  • To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise. 

  • Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught. 

  • To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. 

  • To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. 

noun
  • Bother; problems; hassle. 

  • A light grey colour/color tinted with blue. 

  • A fastball. 

  • A cigarette. 

  • Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.) 

  • A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire. 

  • A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result. 

  • The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material. 

  • An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act. 

  • A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol. 

  • Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors. 

waste

verb
  • To kill; to murder. 

  • To devastate; to destroy. 

  • To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail. 

  • To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly. 

  • To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. 

  • To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually. 

  • To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay. 

noun
  • A place that has been laid waste or destroyed. 

  • A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect. 

  • Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste". 

  • A disused mine or part of one. 

  • Excrement or urine. 

  • Gradual loss or decay. 

  • Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea. 

  • The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land. 

  • The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use. 

  • Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish. 

  • A vast expanse of water. 

  • A large tract of uncultivated land. 

  • A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert. 

  • Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used. 

  • A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away. 

adj
  • Barren; desert. 

  • Superfluous; needless. 

  • Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess. 

  • Useless and contemptible. 

  • Dismal; gloomy; cheerless. 

  • Unfortunate; disappointing. 

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