To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
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Examples for "waste"
Examples for "waste"
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In Europe alone we waste 90 million tonnes of food a year.
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More funding is being proposed to tackle New Zealand's growing waste problem.
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Examples of action that can be taken include: -Household food waste.
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Earlier this year China decided to stop taking any more foreign waste.
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The economic crisis is rooted in decades of state corruption and waste.
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Until the men stand trial for their action we will remain desolate.
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Pauline had put the empty room in order-interrible and desolate order.
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The younger members of the family were desolate when they heard this.
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The roads were unfenced, the meadows desolate; the huts were frequently untenanted.
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The fields are desolate and forbidding, far from the villages social framework.
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Credit Card Interest Credit cards are a scourge on the family budget.
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And the Year 2000 problem is proving to be an unavoidable scourge.
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Let no one underplay the scourge of Islamophobic, racist, extreme right terrorism.
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The president and I also discussed the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism.
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The scourge of typhus in Serbia is a recent and graphic illustration.
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Nate didn't ravage her as she'd half expected, given their combined hunger.
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The French will hound on the Indians to ravage more and more.
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Coronavirus continues to ravage the cultural calendar for the next few months.
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She can ravage her way through them, feasting off everything she finds.
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Having committed this wasteful ravage, he marched in triumph out of Isabella.
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To lay waste to any threat despite the environment it was faced with.
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Jump in, lay waste to your foes, and jump out before reinforcements arrive.
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It was an evil large enough to lay waste to an entire world.
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Think you can get enough ships to Sichult to lay waste to my estate?
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That I could lay waste to any enemy, or dismiss them with a look.
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Last year, auto supporters said an industry collapse would devastate the economy.
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Even today, however, a Washington-Moscow confrontation could devastate the entire northern hemisphere.
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They also said setting import tariffs at zero would devastate Britain's farmers.
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They are fearful any extension to restrictions could devastate the region's economy.
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Collectively it creates a drop in demand, which can devastate economic growth.
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Environmentalists argue it will devastate a rich, biodiverse nation with far-reaching consequences.
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It threatens to devastate the Gulf region's multibillion-dollar fishing and tourist industries.
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In these ways, they can withstand impacts that devastate other marine species.
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They'll be in a position to detonate their mines and devastate everything.
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I know that this letter will devastate you-notonly emotionally, but financially.
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Even a small fire can devastate the structural integrity of the cathedral.
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She knew this would devastate them, but it was the only option.
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The capacity for technic intelligence to devastate a world was shocking, nightmarish.
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He could devastate Salusa Secundus, but that would harm him as well.
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Hampton, having detached Colonel Clarke to devastate Missisquoi Bay, prepared to advance.
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Cross-fertilization could devastate conventional and organic growers' businesses, the critics said.
