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Wasted

Wasted Meaning & Definition
Wasted Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Wasted?

[adj] (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"
[adj] made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
[adj] 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"
[adj] not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
[adj] serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Wasted: atrophied | blasted | bony | cadaverous | desolate | desolated | destroyed | devastated | diminished | emaciated | gaunt | haggard | lean | lost | otiose | pinched | pointless | ravaged | ruined | skeletal | squandered | superfluous | thin | worthless

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