to waste
- verb
- /weɪst/
- Offensive
- I'll bet he wasted your two guys outside.
Examples
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Joe wasted the bastard himself.
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Let's just waste him, come on!
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If it wants to waste us, it will.
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And try not to waste the wrong guy.
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You just wasted two of my friends.
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My hunch is somebody gave him a tip, he came here and they tried to waste him.
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Nick believes that mobsters killed his father: "They took him out to the marshes and wasted him."
Academic text (1997) -
We need to act quickly; they're planning to waste anyone who gets in their way.
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The gang threatened to waste him if he didn't cooperate.
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Don't let them waste you; stay alert and keep your distance.
Synonyms
To make a military threat unable to act, often by using force
Kill someone as part of a crime
To kill someone who is a threat
To kill or seriously hurt someone to remove a threat
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
To spend time doing things that are not useful instead of doing something more useful
Compounds
- Specialized
Radioactive material from medical tests and hospital procedures that has low radiation and needs safe handling
- Specialized
Highly radioactive material left after nuclear fuel is used that needs safe storage for a long time
A thing like time or money that is completely useless and gives no benefit
- Specialized
Poisonous waste from factories that can harm people and nature
- Offensive
A rude phrase for something completely pointless and not worth your time
- Specialized
A place where people dump poisonous materials that must be cleaned because they can harm people or nature
- Specialized
A machine that presses waste like cardboard or plastic into tight bundles for easier handling
- Specialized
A large shallow pond that treats sewage using sunlight and bacteria and algae
How Lethal
- NSFW
- Offensive
- NSFW
- NSFW
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- Offensive
- Offensive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Waste as slang for 'to kill' grows from the older sense 'to destroy' (from wāstan), so a helpful way to remember it is that the slang keeps the idea of total destruction.