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Wasted

adjective

1.

Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being. Synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous. "Advice is wasted words" , "A pointless remark" , "A life essentially purposeless" , "Senseless violence"

2.

Not used to good advantage. Synonym: squandered. "A wasted effort"

3.

(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use. Synonyms: atrophied, diminished.

4.

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold. Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal. "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"

Waste

verb

(past & past part. wasted; pres. part. wasting)

1.

Spend thoughtlessly; throw away. Synonyms: blow, squander. "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

2.

Use inefficiently or inappropriately. "Waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"

3.

Get rid of.

4.

Run off as waste. Synonym: run off.

5.

Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing. Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize. "The double agent was neutralized"

6.

Spend extravagantly. Synonyms: consume, squander, ware.

7.

Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief. Synonyms: languish, pine away.

8.

Cause to grow thin or weak. Synonyms: emaciate, macerate.

9.

Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly. Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge.

10.

Become physically weaker. Synonym: rot.

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"Wasted" Quotes from Famous Books

... her around he wasted no time in getting down to the business on hand, and stepping into the control room, he punched out the data necessary to take the Yore back to 7:15 p.m. of the same day, and to re-materialize it one half mile west of its present ...

— A Knyght Ther Was • Robert F. Young

... within a short distance of the spot where, on the 4th of March previous, the occupant had pronounced his inaugural address. For two days thousands of citizens, of all classes, conditions, and nationalities, reverentially filed past the coffin and gazed upon the wasted form and pallid lineaments of the deceased. On Friday the afflicted widow took the last look at the face of the dead, and after she had left the impressive funeral ceremonies were performed. The remains were then escorted by the military, their arms reversed, ...

— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore

... even more suggestive of this feeling on the part of the artist. It is the tomb of Madame de Birague, Valentina Balbiani.[64] Under a sumptuous dress, covered with sculpture so delicate that the marble looks like lace, a thin and shrunken form can be distinguished. The wasted hand holds a tiny book whose pages it has no strength to turn. Her little dog tries vainly to awake her from a slumber that is eternal. A corpse that is almost a skeleton lies beneath. This is not the sincere expression of the sorrow Villon knew; for we can easily imagine ...

— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

... I should have wasted my day. I think that it is a hundred to one against Smith knowing where they live. As long as he has liquor and good pay, why should he ask questions? They send him messages what to do. No, I thought over every possible course, and ...

— The Sign of the Four • Arthur Conan Doyle

... made an especial point of being as attractive to her husband as to any other man; and she had the immense advantage of never having been in love with anybody but herself and of being philosophical enough not to consider the good things of conversation wasted if they were said for his exclusive benefit. She had no children, and had once remarked in answer to the question whether she regretted this, "There must be some pleasure in having sons old enough to flirt with you; ...

— The Philistines • Arlo Bates

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