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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wast
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wasted journey (=one that did not achieve the result you wanted)
▪ To avoid a wasted journey, ring first to check that the event is still on.
a wasted trip (=a trip in which you do not achieve what you wanted to)
▪ I’m afraid you’ve had a wasted trip. We don’t have those shoes in stock.
a wasted/lost/missed opportunity (=one you do not use)
▪ Many people see the failed talks as a missed opportunity for peace.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
▪ It would be you responsibility to repair the pipe, or pay for all the water wasting away into your garden.
▪ Victims lay wasting away, yet heavy in their immobility.
▪ These strains are prone to wasting away, which has been assumed to be due to constitutional weakness.
▪ The morning was wasting away and I was on a promise to deliver women for Simon down in Southwark.
▪ Now she was literally wasting away, and his visits were still infrequent.
■ NOUN
breath
▪ Was there any point in even wasting her breath trying to convince him?
▪ Besides, something told her she'd be wasting her breath.
life
▪ It's heartbreaking to see him wasting his life away.
▪ Without a plan you will end up going in circles and wasting your life away.
▪ The whole world seems to be depressed, and in our need to escape, we are wasting our lives away.
money
▪ If you can not do this, the company is wasting its money on you.
▪ Carroll said the military is needlessly wasting money on new weapons and too many overseas commitments, such as peacekeeping in Bosnia.
▪ Otherwise you are wasting your money!
▪ We told him he was wasting money.
▪ These days, everyone wishes to avoid wasting money on sprays that may not be cost effective.
▪ He was wasting her money as he handled these sketches.
▪ You'd be wasting your money.
▪ Even if we were wealthy, he saw no reason for wasting money.
opportunity
▪ They paid dearly for wasting goalscoring opportunities.
time
▪ As a result, I was often wasting my time during our first few flying sessions.
▪ Sometimes the pirates would sink a boat out of spite for wasting their time.
▪ Otherwise you're just wasting your time.
▪ What was I doing wasting my time like this?
▪ If you have to go back that far to find dirt you're wasting your time.
▪ Wouldn't it seem strange that Henry Skipton should be wasting his time on the likes of her?
▪ No wonder she made it clear to Shelley that she was wasting her time.
▪ Journalists will not appreciate your wasting their time, however good the lunch.
■ VERB
think
▪ I just think that you're wasting your time writing letters, making speeches, sending out all those pamphlets.
▪ I still think you're wasting your time.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be wasted on sb
▪ The irony of the situation was not wasted on me.
▪ At seventy-three, her days were too short to be wasted on slumber.
▪ Compassion could only lead to increased confusion, for it would be wasted on her.
▪ He explained this with his usual tact, but tact was wasted on Mrs. Bidwell.
▪ Her effort was wasted on me.
▪ I fear your quaint down-home speech is wasted on me, my friend.
▪ It also tends to be grown locally so that less fuel is wasted on transporting it.
▪ It must be a proper justification which shows that your time is not likely to be wasted on a low priority.
▪ Nor did this luxury stimulate local production: it was wasted on foreign imports which could never become productive at home.
wasted journey/trip/effort etc
▪ As processes improve, it cuts out much of the wasted effort and rework, thus enhancing productivity.
▪ By providing clear goals and objectives, it minimises frustration and wasted effort. 4.
▪ If no-one answered soon he would have to chalk it up as a wasted trip, and Montgomery would not be amused.
▪ It could save you a lot of wasted effort and money.
▪ Not a wasted journey, after all, but she was anxious to carry on.
▪ Not that it was a completely wasted trip, what with the hardware store right next door.
▪ Pembrooke had a wasted journey to Downpatrick yesterday.
▪ What a ridiculously wasted effort this was, Bill.
wasting asset
▪ My feeling, for what it's worth, is that they should be regarded as wasting assets.
wasting disease/illness
▪ A preacher, victim of a wasting illness, would refer in the pulpit to his forthcoming demise without shocking his congregation.
▪ Children have been born deformed and there are fears of genetic defects; many adults are suffering from wasting diseases.
▪ She will host the surprise get-together tomorrow as a thank you to the victims of a fatal muscle wasting disease.
▪ There is not much point in weighing less but looking as if you are suffering from some wasting disease.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wast

Wast \Wast\ The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.

Wiktionary
wast

vb. (context archaic English) (second-person singular past of be English)

Wikipedia
WAST

WAST may refer to:

  • Western Australia Standard Time
  • WAST-LP, a defunct low-power television station in Ashland, Wisconsin
  • WNYT (TV), a television station (channel 13 analog/12 digital) licensed to Albany, New York, United States, which used the call sign WAST until September 1981
  • West Africa Summer Time, a time zone used in Namibia
  • Wast Water, a lake in Cumbria, England
  • wast, a past-tense form of to be formerly used with the pronoun thou
WAST (defunct)

WAST (1600 AM) – was a commercial daytime-only radio station licensed to Ashtabula, Ohio, serving parts of Northeast Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania. The station went dark on October 1, 1982.

Usage examples of "wast".

And, Marzio, because thou wast only awed By that which made me tremble, wear thou this!

When thou wast a babe I dandled thee upon my knees, now shall my old arm strike for thee and freedom.

Zululand, and among the white people of Natal, did not thine heart turn to the land thy mother told thee of, thy native place, where thou didst see the light, and play when thou wast little, the land where thy place was?

Again, when the solids of the body have been wasted, they lose their susceptibility to stimuli, and the food does no good.

The minute vessels when paralysed offer inefficient resistance to the force of the heart, and the pulsating organ thus liberated, like the main-spring of a clock from which the resistance has been removed, quickens in action, dilating the feebly resistant vessels, and giving evidence really not of increased, but of wasted power.

In the scientific education of the people no fact is more deserving of special comment than this fact, that excitement is wasted force, the running down of the animal mechanism before it has served out its time of motion.

The affected limb becomes wasted, and is sometimes permanently flexed.

The limb wasted away, becoming small and short, and her back became crooked.

The sad results of their excessive use are seen in thousands of cases of shattered nerves and wasted vigor.

The eye becomes more brilliant and sparkling, the patient is less morose, his digestion improves, he is less listless and despondent, takes more interest in business and other affairs, his sleep is less disturbed and more refreshing, the strength improves, and, if the sexual organs had become wasted in size, weak in function, and flaccid and soft, they begin, by and by, to have more tone and firmness, and to develope and increase in size, as their nutrition is restored, by the checking of the exhausting drain which they have sustained.

Time, equipment and manpower were scarce commodities which could not be wasted upon satisfying Marsological curiosity.

He pedaled hard to get out of range, but they wasted no more ammunition.

If they wasted much time in searching for a place where his footprints left the gully, he might have a chance to escape.

And though the chalice was shattered, the wine was not yet wasted all away.

Let Fate send me other sons to follow in my trade, or I have wasted forty gold pieces on this prophecy.