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Synonyms for waste
Synonyms for waste: desolate, dissipation and wild. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for waste
Interchangeable with waste, one per sense
Audited under waste's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one waste carries in that sense.
- desolateverb, in the sense "cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly"
- dissipationnoun, in the sense "useless or profitless activity"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name waste as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- wildwild is an adjective in the sense "located in a dismal or remote area"
The first group is filed under waste's own senses. The second reaches waste from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
The invading army began to waste the countryside.
The true synonym
desolate
Same sentence, swapped: The invading army began to desolate the countryside.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- blow
- remove
- burn
useless or profitless activity
If the effort brings no compensating gain, it is a waste.
The true synonym
dissipation
Same sentence, swapped: If the effort brings no compensating gain, it is a dissipation.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for waste in the sentence quoted.
- barren
- writing
- hiding
Where waste turns up in the game
waste is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where waste is the trap
- removeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is transfer, in the sense "shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes", and waste is on the board beside it.
- fitnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is burst, in the sense "a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)", so waste is there to be ruled out.
- wildadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is risky, in the sense "involving risk or danger", and waste is on the board beside it.
- conserveverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is husband, in the sense "use cautiously and frugally", so waste is there to be ruled out.
Play waste
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so waste reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. waste carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.