Waste vs. Litter

To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.

Carelessly discarded refuse, such as wastepaper

To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble

A disorderly accumulation of objects; a pile. “An iron washstand [stood] in the corner amidst a litter of soap and soiled towels” (Molly Gloss).

To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose

The group of offspring produced at one birth by a mammal.

To destroy completely

Material, such as straw, used as bedding for animals.

(Slang) To kill; murder.

An absorbent material for covering the floor of an animal's cage or litterbox.

To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor; become weak or enfeebled

An enclosed or curtained couch mounted on shafts and used to carry a single passenger.

To pass without being put to use

A flat supporting framework, such as a piece of canvas stretched between parallel shafts, for carrying a disabled or dead person; a stretcher.

The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted

Fallen leaves and other decaying organic matter that make up the top layer of a forest floor.

A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.

To give birth to (a litter).

A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.

To make untidy by discarding rubbish carelessly

An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product

To scatter about

Something, such as steam, that escapes without being used.

To be scattered about (an area)

Garbage; trash.

To include certain items such as expressions throughout (a speech or piece of writing, for example)

The undigested residue of food eliminated from the body; excrement.

(Archaic) To supply (animals) with litter for bedding or floor covering.

Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless

To give birth to a litter.

Used as a conveyance or container for refuse

To scatter litter.

Excreted from the body

(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

Of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.

The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.

Or urine.

(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.

A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.

(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.

A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.

(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

A large tract of uncultivated land.

(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

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

A covering of straw for plants.

A vast expanse of water.

(intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

A disused mine or part of one.

(transitive) To scatter carelessly about.

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

(transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.

Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.

(transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.

Gradual loss or decay.

(intransitive) To produce a litter of young.

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

(transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

(rare) destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".

(intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

(legal) 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.

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

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

Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.

Useless and contemptible.

Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.

Uncultivated, uninhabited.

Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.

Barren; desert.

The young brought forth at one time, by a cat, dog, sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.

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

To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

Superfluous; needless.

To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.

Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

To give birth to; to bear; - said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.

Unfortunate; disappointing. en

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

(transitive) To devastate; to destroy.

To produce a litter.

(transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.

The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal

To kill; to murder.

Rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)

(transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

Conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers

(intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.

Material used to provide a bed for animals

(intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.

Strew;

(legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

Make a place messy by strewing garbage around

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

Give birth to a litter of animals

Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less; - commonly used with away.

To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; - said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.

That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.

That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.

Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

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

Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted;

Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly;

The trait of wasting resources;

An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;

(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

Spend thoughtlessly; throw away;

Use inefficiently or inappropriately;

Get rid of;

Run off as waste;

Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing;

Spend extravagantly;

Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief;

Cause to grow thin or weak;

Devastate or ravage;

Waste away;

Disposed of as useless;

Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate;