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"
- synonyms: waste
- Get rid of.
- usage: "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
- synonyms: waste
- 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"
- synonyms: neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in
- 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"
- synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous
- Not used to good advantage.
- usage: "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
- synonyms: squandered
- 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"
- synonyms: atrophied, diminished
- 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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