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| 浪费 | làng fèi | to waste / to squander |
| 白费 | bái fèi | to waste (one's energy etc) |
| 话不投机半句多 | huà bù tóu jī bàn jù duō | (idiom) when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion |
| 鼎铛玉石 | dǐng chēng yù shí | lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material / casting pearls before swine |
| 排放 | pái fàng | to arrange in order / to emit; to discharge (exhaust gas, waste water etc) / (of animals) to ovulate; to discharge semen |
| 磨 | mó | to rub / to grind / to polish / to sharpen / to wear down / to die out / to waste time / to pester / to insist |
| 前功尽弃 | qián gōng jìn qì | to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom) / all that has been achieved goes down the drain |
| 赚回来 | zhuàn huí lai | to earn back (money one invested, wasted etc) |
| 荒废 | huāng fèi | to abandon (cultivated fields) / no longer cultivated / to lie waste / wasted / to neglect (one's work or study) |
| 耗 | hào | to waste / to spend / to consume / to squander / news / (coll.) to delay / to dilly-dally |
| 耽误 | dān wu | to delay / to hold up / to waste time / to interfere with |
| 产出 | chǎn chū | to produce (graduates, breast milk, toxic waste, creative ideas etc) / output |
| 焚琴煮鹤 | fén qín zhǔ hè | lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things |
| 淘 | táo | to wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities) / to dredge; to scoop out (sediment or waste) / (dialect) to hunt for and buy (bargains or second-hand goods) / (dialect) naughty; mischievous |
| 泡蘑菇 | pào mó gu | to procrastinate / to shilly-shally and waste time |
| 走弯路 | zǒu wān lù | to take an indirect route / to waste one's time by using an inappropriate method |
| 消瘦 | xiāo shòu | to waste away / to become thin |
| 糟蹋 | zāo tà | to waste; to spoil / to ruin; to wreck / to insult; to humiliate / to defile (a woman); to rape / also pr. [zao1ta5] |
| 废 | fèi | to abolish / to abandon / to abrogate / to discard / to depose / to oust / crippled / abandoned / waste |
| 混日子 | hùn rì zi | to idle / to waste time |
| 花掉 | huā diào | to spend (time, money) / to waste |
| 坐失机宜 | zuò shī jī yí | to sit and waste a good opportunity (idiom); to lose the chance |
| 拖磨 | tuō mó | dawdling / to waste time |
| 乱花 | luàn huā | to spend recklessly / to waste money |
| 靡费 | mí fèi | to waste / to squander |