Meaning

• Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.

• Excrement or urine.

  "The cage was littered with animal waste"

• A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.

• A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.

• A large tract of uncultivated land.

• The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.

• A vast expanse of water.

• A disused mine or part of one.

• The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.

  "Her life seemed a waste"

• Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.

• Gradual loss or decay.

• A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.

• Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"

• A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.

• Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.