What is the meaning of wasted?

verb

  • Spend thoughtlessly; throw away.
    • usage: "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
  • Use inefficiently or inappropriately.
    • usage: "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
  • Get rid of.
    • usage: "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
  • Run off as waste.
    • usage: "The water wastes back into the ocean"
  • Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.
    • usage: "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
  • Spend extravagantly.
    • usage: "waste not, want not"
  • Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief.
    • usage: "After her husband died, she just pined away"
  • Cause to grow thin or weak.
    • usage: "The treatment emaciated him"
  • Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
    • usage: "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
  • Become physically weaker.
    • usage: "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

adjective

  • Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.
    • usage: "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"
  • Not used to good advantage.
    • usage: "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
  • Of an organ or body part. ( diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use)
    • usage: "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"
  • Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
    • usage: "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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APAWordNet. (2010). wasted. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/wasted/definitions/1188066
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