MDBG Mobile Chinese English Dictionary (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone)

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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