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waste away

  • 1 waste away

    (to decay; to lose weight, strength and health etc: He is wasting away because he has a terrible disease.) försvagas, tyna bort

    English-Swedish dictionary > waste away

  • 2 waste

    adj. förlorad, spill-, förspilld; avfalls-; förhärjad, skövlad; ofruktbar; ödelagd
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    n. slöseri; slösande; förslitning, förödelse; ödeläggelse; ödemark; ödejord; sopor; rester; spill
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    v. slösa; slösa bort; förstöra, uttömma; sina; tyna av; tynas av; förslösas; förhärja, mörda (slang)
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    [weist] 1. verb
    (to fail to use (something) fully or in the correct or most useful way: You're wasting my time with all these stupid questions.) slösa []
    2. noun
    1) (material which is or has been made useless: industrial waste from the factories; ( also adjective) waste material.) avfall
    2) ((the) act of wasting: That was a waste of an opportunity.) slöseri
    3) (a huge stretch of unused or infertile land, or of water, desert, ice etc: the Arctic wastes.) ödemark
    - wasteful
    - wastefully
    - wastefulness
    - waste paper
    - wastepaper basket
    - waste pipe
    - waste away

    English-Swedish dictionary > waste

  • 3 waste paper

    (paper which is thrown away as not being useful: Offices usually have a great deal of waste paper.) pappersskräp

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  • 4 languish

    n. avmattning, borttyning; försmäktande (i fängelse etc.); åtrå, begär
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    v. avmattas, tyna av; försmäkta, tyna bort; tråna, trängta efter
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    ['læŋɡwiʃ]
    (to grow weak; to waste away.) avmattas, tyna av (bort)

    English-Swedish dictionary > languish

  • 5 fritter

    n. smådel; fattiga riddare (i matlagning)
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    v. plottra bort, slösa [s] bort; bryta (skära) i småbitar
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    ['fritə]
    ((often with away) to throw away or waste gradually: He frittered (away) all his money on gambling.) slösa (kasta) bort

    English-Swedish dictionary > fritter

  • 6 rubbish

    n. sopor, skräp, avfall; dumheter, nonsens
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    1) (waste material; things that have been or are to be thrown away: Our rubbish is taken away twice a week; ( also adjective) a rubbish bin/bag.) sopor, skräp
    2) (nonsense: Don't talk rubbish!) strunt, smörja

    English-Swedish dictionary > rubbish

  • 7 lose

    v. förlora, mista; missa, gå miste om; slösa, slarva bort; förspilla; bli dödad; springa ifrån; inte förstå
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    [lu:z]
    past tense, past participle - lost; verb
    1) (to stop having; to have no longer: She has lost interest in her work; I have lost my watch; He lost hold of the rope.) tappa, förlora
    2) (to have taken away from one (by death, accident etc): She lost her father last year; The ship was lost in the storm; He has lost his job.) förlora, mista, försvinna
    3) (to put (something) where it cannot be found: My secretary has lost your letter.) tappa (slarva) bort, förlägga
    4) (not to win: I always lose at cards; She lost the race.) förlora
    5) (to waste or use more (time) than is necessary: He lost no time in informing the police of the crime.) förlora, förspilla
    - loss
    - lost
    - at a loss
    - a bad
    - good loser
    - lose oneself in
    - lose one's memory
    - lose out
    - lost in
    - lost on

    English-Swedish dictionary > lose

  • 8 sewage

    n. avloppsvatten, kloakvatten
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    [-i‹]
    noun (waste matter (carried away in sewers).) avlopps-, kloakvatten

    English-Swedish dictionary > sewage

  • 9 toilet

    n. bad, tvättning; toalettstol; toalett, wc; toalett, moderiktig klädsel och frisyr
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    ['toilit]
    ((a room containing) a receptacle for the body's waste matter, usually with a supply of water for washing this away; a lavatory: Do you want to go to the toilet?; Where is the ladies' toilet?; ( also adjective) a toilet seat.) toalett
    - toilet-roll
    - toilet-water

    English-Swedish dictionary > toilet

  • 10 wasteful

    adj. slösaktig; frikostig, påkostad
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    adjective (involving or causing waste: Throwing away that bread is wasteful.) slösaktig

    English-Swedish dictionary > wasteful

См. также в других словарях:

  • waste away — ˌwaste a ˈway [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they waste away he/she/it wastes away present participle wasting away past tense …   Useful english dictionary

  • waste away — {v.} To become more thin and weak every day. * /Jane is wasting away with tuberculosis./ * /After Mrs. Barnes died, her husband wasted away with grief./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • waste away — {v.} To become more thin and weak every day. * /Jane is wasting away with tuberculosis./ * /After Mrs. Barnes died, her husband wasted away with grief./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • waste away — index decay, diminish, ebb, languish, lessen Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • waste away — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms waste away : present tense I/you/we/they waste away he/she/it wastes away present participle wasting away past tense wasted away past participle wasted away to gradually become thinner and weaker over a… …   English dictionary

  • waste away — 1. to gradually become thin and weak. He stopped eating and wasted away until he looked like a shadow. 2. to be damaged or rubbed away by weather. Good soil can waste away quickly if it s not cared for properly …   New idioms dictionary

  • waste away — PHRASAL VERB If someone wastes away, they become extremely thin or weak because they are ill or worried and they are not eating properly. [V P] Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away …   English dictionary

  • waste away phr v — Old sewage workers never die, they just waste away …   English expressions

  • waste away — Synonyms and related words: Sanforize, abate, ablate, absorb, age, assimilate, atomize, atrophy, attenuate, bate, be consumed, be eaten away, be gone, bleed white, break up, burn up, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cheat the undertaker, come… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • waste\ away — v To become more thin and weak every day. Jane is wasting away with tuberculosis. After Mrs. Barnes died, her husband wasted away with grief …   Словарь американских идиом

  • waste away — become progressively weaker and more emaciated. → waste …   English new terms dictionary

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