waste
waste is a valid 5-letter word worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
What does waste mean?
Cause to grow thin or weak.
Spend extravagantly.
“waste not, want not”
Get rid of.
“We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer”
Use inefficiently or inappropriately.
“waste heat”
“waste a joke on an unappreciative audience”
Run off as waste.
“The water wastes back into the ocean”
Spend thoughtlessly; throw away.
“He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends”
Become physically weaker.
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.
Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
“The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion”
Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief.
Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly.
“if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste”
(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect.
The trait of wasting resources.
“a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste”
“the wastefulness of missed opportunities”
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”
An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.
“the trackless wastes of the desert”
Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate.
“waste places”