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wastes

1 definition • 5 examples
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large areas of land that are not used to grow crops and have few living animals or plants:

Examples:

the Arctic wastes of northern Siberia
They journeyed through the rocky wastes of Afghanistan.
They spent several months in the snowy wastes of Antarctica.
They were battered by sandstorms in the desert wastes.
He first encountered the Tuareg people in the wastes of the Sahara.

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