wasteland

Converse of object

• reclaim: Each new praying person is helping reclaim the wasteland.
• transform: This included transforming contaminated wasteland which dwarfed the size of the city center.
• turn: Instead of being held behind barbed wire, the former soldiers have been given the job of turning a waterlogged wasteland into fertile fields.
• become: Then it became a desolate wasteland except for some grazing sheep.
• leave: In some areas they left a wasteland behind them.
• create: By this time the British had created a wasteland in Nigeria.

Adjective modifier

• barren: The barren icy wasteland slowly warmed to become thick woodland.
• desolate: Then it became a desolate wasteland except for some grazing sheep.
• post-industrial: They get no few startled looks from passers by as our snapper photographs them against the post-industrial wasteland of Central Sheffield.
• frozen: We've seen him trudging through snow in Canada's frozen wasteland.
• icy: The barren icy wasteland slowly warmed to become thick woodland.
• derelict: Far from being a derelict industrial wasteland, the valley has many attractive features, which are greatly appreciated by local people.

Preposition: into

• park: The ambitious £ 24 million scheme will turn this 120ha area of wasteland into a first class business park.
• garden: They are currently transforming a area of wasteland into a community garden.

Preposition: on

• edge: They looked slightly different from the two commonly found on the downs meadows and wastelands on the edge of town.

Modifies a noun

• habitat: Some of the most important attributes of urban wasteland habitats are essentially ephemeral.
• quot: It really seems wasteland quot give he made millions.

Noun used with modifier

• desert: Verse 4-5: Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle.
• television: Will the computer deliver us from the television wasteland?
• freezing: The lush moist forests, brimming with life, contrast strongly with the barren baking deserts and the freezing wastelands of the poles.