outwaste

English

Verb

outwaste (third-person singular simple present outwastes, present participle outwasting, simple past and past participle outwasted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To waste entirely.
   • 1659, Paul Gerhardt, A Song of Joy:

     Who in God his hope hath placed Shall not life in pain outwaste, Fullest joy he yet shall taste.

   • 1736, Gentleman of Christ-Church College in Oxford, The Apparition: Or, the Sham-wedding, page 44:

     O yes: A staunch She Zealot will outwaste Belief; and were it in her Power, privately give more to her Precise Instructions, than the Lavish Cleopatra, in Luxury of Love, quaft off to her wanton Galant.

   • 2001, Geoffrey Hill, “Wreaths”, in Daniel McGuiness, editor, Holding Patterns: Temporary Poetics in Contemporary Poetry, page 74:

     Uttering love, that outlasts or outwastes Time's attrition, exiles appear again, But faintly altered in eyes and skin.

   • 2016, LizBeth Jeanne Cone, “Plasia”, in Life Rocks!: Poems About Nature, Life and Laughter:

     The fixation on objects will never stop, as we outpace and outwaste the health of our home.

Noun

outwaste (countable and uncountable, plural outwastes)

1. A remote wasteland.
   • 1867, Horace Mann, Mary Tyler Mann, Lectures, and annual reports, on education, page 271:

     I think, for instance, that it would be impossible for our people to imitate the example of our neighbors, the inhabitants of Maine, — so long and so lately a part of ourselves — where, in the year 1839, there was a general uprising of the whole population, and an appropriation, by an almost unanimous vote of the Legislature, of the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars, for the forcible rescue of certain outlands, or outwastes, claimed by Great Britain;

2. Waste or detritus left behind (e.g. by a glacier)
   • 1987, TH-77 and I-494 Interchange Area Improvements, Bloomington and Richfield: Environmental Impact Statement, page 4-40:

     Glacial outwaste sand and gravel is deposited over the Platteville Limestone, and in the project area, terraced surfaces of valley-train sand and gravel have been mapped by the Minnesota Geological Society.

   • 1993, The Central Himalayan Panorama - Volume 1, page 58:

     A well developed cirque at the Badrinath temple and outwaste plain, lateral and medial morains in the southeast, are the main characteristics of the glacier.

3. The infrastructure for the removal of waste material.
   • 1907, “Plumbing News From Louisville, Ky”, in The Plumbers Trade Journal, volume 42, page 324:

     They are also at present completing the plumbing and steam fitting in the Carolina apartments at Second and Lee streets, which apartment house contains fifteen complete bath rooms and kitchen outwastes.

   • 1984, Annual Symposium on Safeguards and Nuclear Material Management, page 506:

     Some tables are for example: Client, inwaste, outwaste, status, etc. Inputting the data is done on-line by the operator.

   • 2020, Rob Wallace, Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19, page 126:

     Their operations effectively divest from the historically ecological and social integration of local landscapes in favor of new programs in biodiversity, water use, outwaste, labor discipline, and economic extraction.