wasted Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
  2. verb use inefficiently or inappropriately
    waste.
    • waste heat
    • waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
  3. verb get rid of
    waste.
    • We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
  4. verb run off as waste
    waste; run off.
    • The water wastes back into the ocean
  5. 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
  6. verb spend extravagantly
    ware; waste; consume; squander.
    • waste not, want not
  7. verb lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
    waste; pine away; languish.
    • After her husband died, she just pined away
  8. verb cause to grow thin or weak
    macerate; emaciate; waste.
    • The treatment emaciated him
  9. 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
  10. verb become physically weaker
    waste; rot.
    • Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
  11. 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
  12. adjective satellite not used to good advantage
    squandered.
    • squandered money cannot be replaced
    • a wasted effort
  13. 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
  14. 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

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