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WASTE
Scrabble Validity
Valid UK Scrabble Word
Confirmed in SOWPODS / CSW24 (UK & International Scrabble).
Dictionary memberships:
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US) — US Scrabble validity
- ENABLE (Words with Friends) — Words With Friends validity
- SOWPODS / CSW24 (UK & International Scrabble) — UK Scrabble validity
Tile Values
W
4
A
1
S
1
T
1
E
1
Σ
8
Definitions
Verb
- become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
- spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
- use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
- run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"
- get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
Noun
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
- (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"
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
- 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"
Adjective
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word WASTE
Yes, WASTE is valid for UK Scrabble according to SOWPODS / CSW24 (UK & International Scrabble). If you play it, you can score 8 points in Scrabble.
WASTE is a 5-letter word. It contains 2 vowels and 3 consonants.