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(now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited. / Barren; desert. / Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess. / Superfluous; needless. / Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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waste

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Source Word

waste

IPA(Pronunciation)

/weɪst/

Adjective

archaic

(now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited. / Barren; desert. / Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess. / Superfluous; needless. / Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

Japanese Meaning

（現代では稀な用例）耕作されておらず、住民のいない、未開拓な状態 / 不毛な、あるいは荒野のような荒涼とした状態 / 欠陥があると判断され、価値がないとみなされ捨てられた、または必要以上に生産された状態 / 余分な、不要な、または無駄なもの / 陰気な、どんよりした、または憂鬱な様子

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They built a small shrine on the waste moor to honor lost travelers.

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彼らは遭難した旅人を偲んで、荒れ地に小さな祠を建てた。

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(now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.

SOo whanne syr Galahad was departed from the castel of maydens / he rode tyl he came to a waste forest / & there he mette with syre launcelot and syr Percyuale but they knewe hym not / for he was newe desguysed / Ryghte so syr launcelot his fader dressid his spere and brake it vpon syr Galahad

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Barren; desert.

For centuries the shrine at Mecca had been of merely local importance, far outshone by the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, whose cult Christians had in good measure renewed by their pilgrimage in honour of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, while leaving the actual site of the Jerusalem Temple dishonoured and waste.

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Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.

Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.

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