wasting

/weɪst/

US pronunciation

American sound/weɪst/

wasting

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final ng sound

was - ting -> wasting

Myanmar meaning

(v[ing]) ဖြုန်းတီးနေ

Full entry

waste /weÇst/ v

၁။ ~ sth (on sb/sth) ဖြုန်းတီးသည်။ အလဟဿ ဖြစ်စေသည်။ waste time/food/electricity/energy ❍ Why waste money on clothes you don't need?
၂။ (esp passive) အချည်းနှီးဖြစ်သွားသော အလုပ်ကိုလုပ်သည်။ We had a wasted journey —they weren't there.
၃။ ~ sth (on sb) (esp passive) အလကားဖြစ်သည်။ အချည်းနှီးဖြစ်သည်။ Your humour is wasted (on them), I'm afraid. ❍ Good cooking is wasted on him; he doesn't care what he eats.
၄။ (usu passive) ရရှိသည့် အခွင့်အရေးကို ကောင်းစွာ အသုံးမချတတ်။ It was a wasted opportunity. ❍ She's wasted in her present job.
n
၁။ [U, sing] ဖြုန်းတီးမှု။ ပြုန်းတီးမှု။ a waste of time/money/energy/effort ❍ The goods should be handled carefully to avoid waste.
၂။ [U] စွန့်ပစ်ပစ္စည်း။ nuclear/toxic waste ❍ A lot of household waste can be recycled. ❍ The kitchen is fitted with a waste disposal unit.
၃။ [C usu pl ] လူသူလေးပါးမနေနိုင်သော အရပ်။ ကန္တာရ။ desert wastes ❍ the icy wastes of the Antarctic.
adj
၁။ လူသူလေးပါးမနေသော (အရပ်)။ The stolen car was found on a piece of waste ground.
၂။ စွန့်ပစ်သည့်၊ မည့်။ waste materials produced by the manufacturing process ❍ waste water.
❏ go to waste [IDM ] အလကားပစ်လိုက်ရသည်။ I hate to see all that food going to waste.
❏ lay sth waste [IDM ] (rhet ) သုံးမရအောင် ပျက်စီးသွား သည်။ land laid waste by war.
❏ waste away [PHRV ] ချုံးကျသွားသည်။
❏ waste-basket (also waste-bin ) n (US ) = waste-paper basket
❏ waste one's breath [IDM ] လေကုန်ခံ၍ပြောသည်။ They won't listen, so don't waste your breath.
❏ wasteful /-fl/ adj ဖြုန်းတီးသော။ a wasteful use of energy/natural resources. wastefully /-fǝli/ adv, wastefulness n [U]
❏ waste not, want not [IDM ] (saying ) မဖြုန်းမှ အသုံးရ။
❏ waste paper n [U] စက္ကူစုတ်။
❏ waste-paper basket (Brit ) (US waste-basket , waste-bin ) n အမှိုက်ခြင်း။ အမှိုက်ပုံး။
❏ waste pipe n ရေဆိုးထုတ်ပိုက်။
❏ waste product n စွန့်ပစ်ပစ္စည်း။
❏ waster n
၁။ (often in compounds) ဖြုန်းသူ။ …စား သောအရာ။ a time-waster ❍ Many household machines are great energy wasters.
၂။ ဘဝကိုဖြုန်းပစ်သူ။ Compare wastrel
❏ wasting adj လုံးပါးပါးလိုက်သော (ရောဂါ)။

More examples

All this uneaten food – what a waste!
A campaign to increase efficiency and reduce waste in government departments
[waste of] : A waste of young talent
There was growing opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life.
[go to waste] : The cherries will just go to waste if we don’t pick them soon.
[a waste of time/money/effort etc] : It’s a waste of time trying to get her to change her mind.
They said a public enquiry would just be a waste of taxpayers’ money.
A bill was introduced to clean up toxic wastes from local factories.
A controversy over the storage of nuclear waste
Human waste (=substances that your body gets rid of when you go to the toilet)
The process recycles domestic waste to produce fertilizer.
The desert’s sandy wastes

Synonyms

squander, fritter away, misuse, dissipate, throw away, desecrate, devastate, ravage, atrophy, badlands, bare, barren, be of no avail, become emaciated, blow, bog, brush, brushland, burn up, bush, consume, corrode, crumble, debilitate, debris, decay, decline, decrease, deplete, depredate, desert, desolate, desolation, despoil, destroy, destruction, devastation, devour, dilapidation, disable, disappear, discarded, dissipation, disuse, divert, drain, dreck, dregs, droop, dross, dust bowl, eat away, ebb, emaciate, empty, enfeeble, excess, exhaust, exhaustion, expenditure, extravagance, fade, fallow, fen, fritter, frivol away, gamble away, garbage, gnaw, go to waste, havoc, hogwash, improvidence, jungle, junk, lavish, lavishness, lay waste, leavings, leftover, leftovers, litter, lose, loss, lost opportunity, marsh, marshland, misapplication, misapply, misemploy, moor, offal, offscourings, overdoing, perish, pillage, pour down the drain, prodigality, quagmire, rape, raze, reduce, refuse, remaining, rubbish, rubble, ruin, ruins, rummage, run dry, run through, sack, sap, scrap, sink, slop, solitude, spare, spending, splurge, spoil, spoliate, squandering, surplus, swamp, sweepings, swill, thin, trash, trifle away, tundra, uncultivated, undermine, unthriftiness, unused, unwanted, void, wane, wastage, waste away, wastefulness, wasteland, weaken, wear, wear out, wild, wilderness, wilds, wilt, wither, wreak havoc

Antonyms

accumulate, aid, assist, bloom, build, building, collect, construct, construction, create, creation, cultivated, develop, development, fill, gather, grow, growth, help, hoard, hoarding, improve, improvement, increase, maintain, possessions, preserve, protect, raise, rise, save, saving, sense, starve, strengthen, succeed