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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