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awaste

/əˈweɪst/

adverb

To waste; wasted.

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Meanings

adverbawaste (not comparable)

not comparableTo waste; wasted.
The blood of all the martyrs shall not go awaste and the toil of today's heroes shall break down all the prison walls and all the barriers shall be overcome.
1981, Permanent Organization for Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity, AAPSO Against Apartheid, volume 2, page 82

Origin

From a- + waste.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with awaste

based taste faced paste waist paced spaced haste chased laced cased braced chaste distaste baste abased unchaste lambaste bumbaste impaste post-haste smaste snaste two-faced

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APA

awaste. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awaste

MLA

“awaste.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awaste. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “awaste,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awaste.

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