Usually means: Not used, lost, or discarded.
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  1. go to waste: Merriam-Webster
  2. go to waste: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. go to waste: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. go to waste: Wiktionary
  5. go to waste: Dictionary.com
  6. go to waste: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. go to waste: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (go to waste)

▸ verb:  To remain unused; not to fulfill its purpose.

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run to waste, wasten, waste, forwaste, throw away, waste time, corrupt, spurn, pass away, outwaste, more...

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run to waste, wasten, waste, forwaste, throw away, waste time, corrupt, spurn, pass away, outwaste, more...



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