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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
Synonyms
- dally; dawdle; dick around (American, vulgar), fiddlefart, fiddlefuck; faff about, fanny about, fiddle about, fritter, fuck around (vulgar), goof off, piddle around, about, or away (British, idiomatic); piss away, about, or around (vulgar); slack off, screw around
Derived terms
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)
- Hokkien: 無了時／无了时 (zh) (bô-liáu-sî)
- Mandarin: 浪費時間／浪费时间 (làngfèi shíjiān), 白費時間／白费时间 (báifèi 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
- 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)
- Lithuanian: švaistyti laiką, temptį gumą, temptį laiką
- Maori: ānewanewa
- Polish: tracić czas, bałwanić się impf
- Portuguese: perder tempo
- Romanian: pierde timpul, freca menta, tăia frunză la câini, irosi timpul
- 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
- Ukrainian: га́яти час impf (hájaty čas), марнува́ти час impf (marnuváty čas)
- Vietnamese: tốn thì giờ (chẳng ra gì)
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