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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
- Example: "otiose lines in a play"
- Example: "advice is wasted words"
- Example: "a pointless remark"
- Example: "a life essentially purposeless"
- Example: "senseless violence"
[syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]

2. not used to good advantage;
- Example: "squandered money cannot be replaced"
- Example: "a wasted effort"
[syn: squandered, wasted]

3. (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use;
- Example: "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"
[syn: atrophied, wasted, diminished]

4. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
- Example: "emaciated bony hands"
- Example: "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
- Example: "eyes were haggard and cavernous"
- Example: "small pinched faces"
- Example: "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
[syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Waste \Waste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Wasting.] [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F.
   g[^a]ter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr.
   vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but
   influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosten, G.
   w["u]sten, AS. w[=e]stan. See Waste, a.]
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   1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
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            Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted,
            Art made a mirror to behold my plight. --Spenser.
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            The Tiber
            Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish
      by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear
      out.
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            Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
                                                  --Num. xiv.
                                                  33.
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            O, were I able
            To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! --Milton.
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            Here condemned
            To waste eternal days in woe and pain. --Milton.
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            Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of
            age daily grew on him.                --Robertson.
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   3. To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ
      prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to
      useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause
      to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
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            The younger son gathered all together, and . . .
            wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv.
                                                  13.
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            Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
            And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray.
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   4. (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate,
      voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc.,
      to go to decay.
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   Syn: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wasted
    adj 1: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
           "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a
           pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless";
           "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless,
           purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
    2: not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be
       replaced"; "a wasted effort" [syn: squandered, wasted]
    3: (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" [syn:
       atrophied, wasted, diminished] [ant: enlarged,
       hypertrophied]
    4: 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" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated,
       gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]