wasted Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb spend thoughtlessly; throw away
blow; waste; squander.
- He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
- You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
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verb use inefficiently or inappropriately
waste.
- waste heat
- waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
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verb get rid of
waste.
- We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
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verb run off as waste
waste; run off.
- The water wastes back into the ocean
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verb get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
knock off; neutralize; liquidate; do in; waste; neutralise.
- The mafia liquidated the informer
- the double agent was neutralized
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verb spend extravagantly
ware; waste; consume; squander.
- waste not, want not
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verb lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
waste; pine away; languish.
- After her husband died, she just pined away
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verb cause to grow thin or weak
macerate; emaciate; waste.
- The treatment emaciated him
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verb cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
desolate; devastate; scourge; lay waste to; ravage; waste.
- The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
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verb become physically weaker
waste; rot.
- Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
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adjective satellite serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
pointless; senseless; purposeless; otiose; superfluous.
- otiose lines in a play
- advice is wasted words
- a pointless remark
- a life essentially purposeless
- senseless violence
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adjective satellite not used to good advantage
squandered.
- squandered money cannot be replaced
- a wasted effort
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adjective (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
diminished; atrophied.
- partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm
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adjective satellite very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
pinched; bony; emaciated; cadaverous; gaunt; skeletal; haggard.
- emaciated bony hands
- a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
- eyes were haggard and cavernous
- small pinched faces
- kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration