English
Verb
waste time (third-person singular simple present wastes time, present participle wasting time, simple past and past participle wasted time)
- To allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner.
1973, “Sad Song”, in Berlin, performed by Lou Reed:I'm gonna stop wastin' my time / Somebody else would have broken both of her arms
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Synonyms
- dally; dawdle; faff about, fiddle about, piddle around, about, or away (British, idiomatic); piss away, about, or around (vulgar); dick around (American, vulgar), fiddlefart, fiddlefuck, goof off, slack off, fuck around, fanny about, fritter, screw around
Derived terms
Terms derived from waste time
Translations
allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner
- Arabic: ضَيَّعَ اَلْوَقْت (ḍayyaʕa al-waqt)
- Armenian: ժամանակ վատնել (žamanak vatnel)
- Catalan: perdre temps (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 嘥時間／嘥时间 (saai1 si4 gaan3), 嘥时间 (saai1 si4 gaan3)
- Mandarin: 浪費時間／浪费时间 (làngfèi shíjiān), 浪费时间 (làngfèi shíjiān)
- Czech: plýtvat časem, mrhat časem
- Dutch: tijd verspillen
- Finnish: hukata aikaa, haaskata aikaa
- French: perdre son temps (fr)
- Galician: enredar, perder o tempo
- German: Zeit vergeuden
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- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: perdere tempo, sprecare tempo
- Japanese: 時間を無駄に過ごす (じかんをむだにすごす, jikan o muda ni sugosu)
- Korean: 시간을 소비하다 (siganeul sobihada)
- Lao: ເສຍເວລາ (sīa wē lā)
- Maori: ānewanewa
- Polish: tracić czas, bałwanić się impf
- Portuguese: perder tempo
- Russian: теря́ть вре́мя impf (terjátʹ vrémja)
- Shan: သုမ်းၶၢဝ်းယၢမ်း (súm kháao yáam)
- Spanish: perder el tiempo (es), perecear (es), pelar la pava (es) (Spain, colloquial), estar al pedo (Argentina, Uruguay, colloquial)
- Swedish: spilla tid, ödsla tid, förspilla tid
- Thai: เสียเวลา (th) (sǐia-wee-laa)
- Turkish: zaman öldürmek (tr), vakit geçirmek (tr), vakit öldürmek (tr), zaman geçirmek
- Vietnamese: tốn thì giờ (chẳng ra gì)
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