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outwaste

outwaste verb: to waste entirely.

Verb

outwaste (third-person singular simple present outwastes, present participle outwasting, simple past and past participle outwasted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To waste entirely.
    • Who in God his hope hath placed Shall not life in pain outwaste, Fullest joy he yet shall taste.1659, Paul Gerhardt, A Song of Joy
    • O yes: A staunch She Zealot will outwaste Belief; and were it in her Power, privately give more to her Precise Instructions, than the Lavish Cleopatra, in Luxury of Love, quaft off to her wanton Galant.1736, Gentleman of Christ-Church College in Oxford, The Apparition: Or, the Sham-wedding, page 44

Noun

outwaste (countable and uncountable, plural outwastes)

  1. A remote wasteland.
    • I think, for instance, that it would be impossible for our people to imitate the example of our neighbors, the inhabitants of Maine, — so long and so lately a part of ourselves — where, in the year 1839, there was a general uprising of the whole population, and an appropriation, by an almost...1867, Horace Mann, Mary Tyler Mann, Lectures, and annual reports, on education, page 271
  2. Waste or detritus left behind (e.g. by a glacier)
    • Glacial outwaste sand and gravel is deposited over the Platteville Limestone, and in the project area, terraced surfaces of valley-train sand and gravel have been mapped by the Minnesota Geological Society.1987, TH-77 and I-494 Interchange Area Improvements, Bloomington and Richfield: Environmental Impact Statement, page 4-40
    • A well developed cirque at the Badrinath temple and outwaste plain, lateral and medial morains in the southeast, are the main characteristics of the glacier.1993, The Central Himalayan Panorama - Volume 1, page 58
  3. The infrastructure for the removal of waste material.
    • They are also at present completing the plumbing and steam fitting in the Carolina apartments at Second and Lee streets, which apartment house contains fifteen complete bath rooms and kitchen outwastes.1907, “Plumbing News From Louisville, Ky”, in The Plumbers Trade Journal, volume 42, page 324
    • Some tables are for example: Client, inwaste, outwaste, status, etc. Inputting the data is done on-line by the operator.1984, Annual Symposium on Safeguards and Nuclear Material Management, page 506

Examples of outwaste in a sentence

  • Uttering love, that outlasts or outwastes Time's attrition, exiles appear again, But faintly altered in eyes and skin.2001, Geoffrey Hill, “Wreaths”, in Daniel McGuiness, editor, Holding Patterns: Temporary Poetics in Contemporary Poetry, page 74:
  • The fixation on objects will never stop, as we outpace and outwaste the health of our home.2016, LizBeth Jeanne Cone, “Plasia”, in Life Rocks!: Poems About Nature, Life and Laughter:

Forms of outwaste

Verb
third-person singular presentoutwastes
present participleoutwasting
past participleoutwasted
pastoutwasted
Noun
pluraloutwastes

Questions about outwaste

What does outwaste mean?
Outwaste means to waste entirely.
How do you use outwaste in a sentence?
Uttering love, that outlasts or outwastes Time's attrition, exiles appear again, But faintly altered in eyes and skin.
What part of speech is outwaste?
Outwaste can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of outwaste?
The past tense of outwaste is outwasted.

Words near outwaste in the dictionary

  1. outwarred
  2. outwarring
  3. outwars
  4. outwash
  5. outwashes
  6. outwaste
  7. outwasted
  8. outwastes
  9. outwasting
  10. outwatch
  11. outwatched

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