| garbage collector | | |
| n. (person) | 1. dustman, garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, garbageman, refuse collector | someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse. |
| ~ hauler, haulier | a haulage contractor. |
| refuse | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. food waste, garbage, refuse, scraps | food that is discarded (as from a kitchen). |
| ~ waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product | 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" |
| v. (communication) | 2. decline, refuse | show unwillingness towards.; "he declined to join the group on a hike" |
| ~ react, respond | show a response or a reaction to something. |
| ~ freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject | reject with contempt.; "She spurned his advances" |
| ~ contract out | refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use. |
| ~ regret | decline formally or politely.; "I regret I can't come to the party" |
| ~ repudiate | refuse to recognize or pay.; "repudiate a debt" |
| ~ disobey | refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient.; "He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired" |
| v. (possession) | 3. decline, pass up, refuse, reject, turn down | refuse to accept.; "He refused my offer of hospitality" |
| ~ freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject | reject with contempt.; "She spurned his advances" |
| ~ dishonor, dishonour | refuse to accept.; "dishonor checks and drafts" |
| ~ bounce | refuse to accept and send back.; "bounce a check" |
| v. (stative) | 4. defy, refuse, resist | elude, especially in a baffling way.; "This behavior defies explanation" |
| ~ beggar | be beyond the resources of.; "This beggars description!" |
| ~ elude, escape | be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" |
| v. (possession) | 5. deny, refuse | refuse to let have.; "She denies me every pleasure"; "he denies her her weekly allowance" |
| ~ keep, hold on | retain possession of.; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married" |
| ~ abnegate, deny | deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure.; "She denied herself wine and spirits" |
| ~ withhold, keep back | hold back; refuse to hand over or share.; "The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room" |
| v. (stative) | 6. refuse, reject, resist | resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ.; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" |
| ~ react, respond | show a response or a reaction to something. |
| v. (social) | 7. refuse, reject, turn away, turn down | refuse entrance or membership.; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs" |
| ~ freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject | reject with contempt.; "She spurned his advances" |
| rubbish | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. rubbish, scrap, trash | worthless material that is to be disposed of. |
| ~ waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product | 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" |
| ~ scrap metal | discarded metal suitable for reprocessing.; "he finally sold the car for scrap metal" |
| ~ debris, detritus, junk, rubble, dust | the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up. |
| ~ litter | rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places). |
| n. (communication) | 2. applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash | nonsensical talk or writing. |
| ~ drivel, garbage | a worthless message. |
| ~ argot, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular, slang, cant | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).; "they don't speak our lingo" |
| v. (communication) | 3. rubbish | attack strongly. |
| ~ lash out, attack, assail, assault, snipe, round | attack in speech or writing.; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" |
| trash | | |
| n. (group) | 1. scum, trash | worthless people. |
| ~ ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rabble | disparaging terms for the common people. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, methedrine, shabu, trash | an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant. |
| ~ amphetamine, pep pill, upper, speed | a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression. |
| ~ controlled substance | a drug or chemical substance whose possession and use are controlled by law. |
| v. (possession) | 3. junk, scrap, trash | dispose of (something useless or old).; "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer" |
| ~ cast aside, cast away, chuck out, discard, throw away, toss away, toss out, cast out, dispose, put away, throw out, fling, toss | throw or cast away.; "Put away your worries" |
| v. (communication) | 4. pan, tear apart, trash | express a totally negative opinion of.; "The critics panned the performance" |
| ~ disparage, belittle, pick at | express a negative opinion of.; "She disparaged her student's efforts" |
| waste | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product | 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" |
| ~ material, stuff | the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" |
| ~ dross, impurity | worthless or dangerous material that should be removed.; "there were impurities in the water" |
| ~ exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes | gases ejected from an engine as waste products. |
| ~ body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product, excretion | waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body. |
| ~ filth, skank, crud | any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant. |
| ~ sewage, sewerage | waste matter carried away in sewers or drains. |
| ~ effluent, sewer water, wastewater | water mixed with waste matter. |
| ~ food waste, garbage, refuse, scraps | food that is discarded (as from a kitchen). |
| ~ pollutant | waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil. |
| ~ rubbish, trash, scrap | worthless material that is to be disposed of. |
| ~ slop | (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand.; "she carried out the sink slops" |
| ~ toxic industrial waste, toxic waste | poisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means). |
| n. (act) | 2. dissipation, waste, wastefulness | 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" |
| ~ boondoggle | work of little or no value done merely to look busy. |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ waste of effort, waste of energy | a useless effort. |
| ~ waste of material | a useless consumption of material. |
| ~ waste of money | money spent for inadequate return.; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money" |
| ~ waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity.; "the waste of time could prove fatal" |
| ~ high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality, extravagance | excessive spending. |
| ~ squandering | spending resources lavishly and wastefully.; "more wasteful than the squandering of time" |
| n. (attribute) | 3. thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness | the trait of wasting resources.; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities" |
| ~ improvidence, shortsightedness | a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources. |
| n. (location) | 4. barren, waste, wasteland | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" |
| ~ heathland, heath | a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation. |
| ~ wild, wilderness | a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition.; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers" |
| n. (act) | 5. permissive waste, waste | (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect. |
| ~ human action, human activity, act, deed | something that people do or cause to happen. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| v. (possession) | 6. blow, squander, waste | spend thoughtlessly; throw away.; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree" |
| ~ expend, use | use up, consume fully.; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" |
| ~ blow | spend lavishly or wastefully on.; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater" |
| ~ burn | spend (significant amounts of money).; "He has money to burn" |
| v. (consumption) | 7. waste | use inefficiently or inappropriately.; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" |
| ~ apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize | put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer" |
| v. (possession) | 8. waste | get rid of.; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" |
| ~ cast aside, cast away, chuck out, discard, throw away, toss away, toss out, cast out, dispose, put away, throw out, fling, toss | throw or cast away.; "Put away your worries" |
| v. (motion) | 9. run off, waste | run off as waste.; "The water wastes back into the ocean" |
| ~ course, flow, run, feed | move along, of liquids.; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" |
| v. (contact) | 10. do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize, waste | get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" |
| ~ kill | cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
| v. (consumption) | 11. consume, squander, ware, waste | spend extravagantly.; "waste not, want not" |
| ~ fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, fool, dissipate, shoot | spend frivolously and unwisely.; "Fritter away one's inheritance" |
| ~ luxuriate, wanton | become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously. |
| ~ lavish, shower | expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns.; "He was showered with praise" |
| ~ overspend | spend at a high rate. |
| ~ expend, spend, drop | pay out.; "spend money" |
| ~ splurge, fling | indulge oneself.; "I splurged on a new TV" |
| v. (change) | 12. languish, pine away, waste | lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief.; "After her husband died, she just pined away" |
| ~ weaken | become weaker.; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" |
| v. (change) | 13. emaciate, macerate, waste | cause to grow thin or weak.; "The treatment emaciated him" |
| ~ emaciate | grow weak and thin or waste away physically.; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy" |
| ~ debilitate, enfeeble, drain | make weak.; "Life in the camp drained him" |
| v. (change) | 14. desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste | cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" |
| ~ ruin, destroy | destroy completely; damage irreparably.; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" |
| ~ ruin | reduce to ruins.; "The country lay ruined after the war" |
| v. (body) | 15. rot, waste | become physically weaker.; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" |
| ~ degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop | grow worse.; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" |
| ~ gangrene, necrose, sphacelate, mortify | undergo necrosis.; "the tissue around the wound necrosed" |
| adj. | 16. godforsaken, waste, wild | located in a dismal or remote area; desolate.; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" |
| ~ inhospitable | unfavorable to life or growth.; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas" |
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