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wasted

 
Adjective wasted has 5 senses
  1. otiose, pointless, superfluous, wasted - serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"
    Antonym: valuable (indirect, via worthless)
  2. squandered, wasted - not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
    Antonym: found (indirect, via lost)
  3. atrophied, wasted, diminished - (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"
  4. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted - very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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"
    Antonym: fat (indirect, via thin)
  5. blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted - made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
    Antonym: preserved (indirect, via destroyed)
Verb waste has 10 senses
  1. waste, blow, squander - spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
    --1 is one way to use, expend
    Antonyms: conserve, husband, economize, economise
    Derived forms: noun waste3, noun waste2, noun waster1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. waste - use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
    --2 is one way to
    use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
    Derived forms: noun waste3, noun waste2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. waste - get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
    --3 is one way to
    discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away
    Derived form: noun waste1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. waste, run off - run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"
    --4 is one way to run, flow, feed, course
    Derived form: noun waste1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  5. neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in - get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
    --5 is one way to kill
    Sample sentence:
    They want to waste the prisoners
  6. consume, squander, waste, ware - spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
    --6 is one way to spend, expend, drop
    Derived forms: noun waste2, noun waster1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    => Somebody ----s
  7. pine away, waste, languish - lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
    --7 is one way to weaken
    Derived form: noun wastage1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
  8. waste, emaciate, macerate - cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
    --8 is one way to enfeeble, debilitate, drain
    Derived forms: noun wastage1, noun wasting1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
  9. lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge - devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
    --9 is one way to destroy, ruin
    Derived form: noun waster2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  10. waste, rot - waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
    --10 is one way to devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
    Derived form: noun wastage1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
waste paper waste pipe waste producer waste product waste storage waste time wastebasket wastebin wasted wasteful wastefully wastefulness wasteland wastepaper basket waster wasters wastes

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