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Meanings of
wasteland
in English
Portuguese
deserto
Catalan
erm
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An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.
waste
barren
Portuguese
deserto
Synonyms
Examples for "
waste
"
waste
barren
Examples for "
waste
"
1
In Europe alone we
waste
90 million tonnes of food a year.
2
More funding is being proposed to tackle New Zealand's growing
waste
problem.
3
Examples of action that can be taken include: -Household food
waste
.
4
Earlier this year China decided to stop taking any more foreign
waste
.
5
The economic crisis is rooted in decades of state corruption and
waste
.
1
Leaders' Questions can be a
barren
experience at the best of times.
2
Abruptly he was no longer in the
barren
land, no longer falling.
3
You will have
barren
work, to say nothing of incurring some danger.
4
The piñon flourishes in the bleak and
barren
peaks of the rockies.
5
The
barren
,
overgrazed ground ringing Amboseli National Park testifies to the result.
Usage of
wasteland
in English
1
Tonight, yet another foray into the great
wasteland
which is middle age.
2
Over the long term this kind of power breeds its own
wasteland
.
3
Is this about to happen in the stale
wasteland
of Irish politics?
4
Nick had no intention of going another step into this ghostly
wasteland
.
5
There's your quick look at the frozen
wasteland
a city has become.
6
Quaid's house, though scarcely palatial, was more welcoming than the surrounding
wasteland
.
7
Across the middle of this frozen
wasteland
lurched a single, solitary figure.
8
Apparently Saergaeth had no fear of the haunted
wasteland
of Fallow Down.
9
But McIntyre stared fixedly across the
wasteland
at the bleary western horizon.
10
A bright green paradise hidden in the middle of a vast
wasteland
.
11
He spent decades and decades in the freezing
wasteland
of northern Taurus.
12
Google shows that Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands is not a road-less
wasteland
.
13
Since the Knockers merged with the Mystic Wombats it's become a
wasteland
.
14
Then the snows came, and Marta looked out on a frozen
wasteland
.
15
In the
wasteland
of Cleveland I had been a budding juvenile delinquent.
16
The darkside equator, that frozen remote
wasteland
,
was redolent with sublime grandeur.
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About this term
wasteland
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
barren wasteland
industrial wasteland
freeze wasteland
vast wasteland
urban wasteland
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Translations for
wasteland
Portuguese
deserto
baldio
Catalan
erm
terra erma
Wasteland
through the time
Wasteland
across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common