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| n. (person) | 1. blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue | a dissolute man in fashionable society. |
| ~ debauchee, libertine, rounder | a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. pitch, rake, slant | degree of deviation from a horizontal plane.; "the roof had a steep pitch" |
| ~ gradient, slope | the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal.; "a five-degree gradient" |
| ~ loft | (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. rake | a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil. |
| ~ croupier's rake | a small rake used by a croupier to move chips around on the table. |
| ~ garden rake | a rake used by gardeners. |
| ~ rake handle | the handle of a rake. |
| ~ tool | an implement used in the practice of a vocation. |
| v. (motion) | 4. rake | move through with or as if with a rake.; "She raked her fingers through her hair" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| v. (contact) | 5. rake | level or smooth with a rake.; "rake gravel" |
| ~ smooth, smoothen | make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing.; "smooth the surface of the wood" |
| v. (stative) | 6. rake | sweep the length of.; "The gunfire raked the coast" |
| ~ sweep | cover the entire range of. |
| ~ enfilade | rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction. |
| v. (perception) | 7. glance over, rake, run down, scan, skim | examine hastily.; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" |
| ~ examine, see | observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect.; "The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country" |
| v. (contact) | 8. rake | gather with a rake.; "rake leaves" |
| ~ scrape, grate | scratch repeatedly.; "The cat scraped at the armchair" |
| ~ gather, pull together, collect, garner | assemble or get together.; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| v. (contact) | 9. crease, graze, rake | scrape gently.; "graze the skin" |
| ~ brush | touch lightly and briefly.; "He brushed the wall lightly" |
| ~ shave | touch the surface of lightly.; "His back shaved the counter in passing" |
| rake-off | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. rake-off, vigorish | a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster. |
| ~ cut | a share of the profits.; "everyone got a cut of the earnings" |
| 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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