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wasted Definition

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

wasted Synonyms

• atrophied
• blasted
• bony
• cadaverous
• desolate
• desolated
• devastated
• diminished
• emaciated
• gaunt
• haggard
• otiose
• pinched
• pointless
• ravaged
• ruined
• skeletal
• squandered
• superfluous
• wasted