adjective
serving no useful purpose
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- having no excuse for being
- otiose lines in a play
- advice is wasted words
- a pointless remark
- a life essentially purposeless
- senseless violence
adjective
not used to good advantage
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- squandered money cannot be replaced
- a wasted effort
adjective
(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
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- partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm
adjective
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
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- 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
noun
any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
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waste
waste material
waste matter
waste product
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- they collect the waste once a week
- much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers
noun
useless or profitless activity
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- using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste
- mindless dissipation of natural resources
noun
the trait of wasting resources
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- a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
- the wastefulness of missed opportunities
noun
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
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- the barrens of central Africa
- the trackless wastes of the desert
noun
(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
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verb
spend thoughtlessly
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- throw away
- He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
- You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
verb
use inefficiently or inappropriately
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- waste heat
- waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
verb
get rid of
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- We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
verb
run off as waste
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- The water wastes back into the ocean
verb
get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
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- The mafia liquidated the informer
- the double agent was neutralized
verb
spend extravagantly
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- waste not, want not
verb
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
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- After her husband died, she just pined away
verb
cause to grow thin or weak
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- The treatment emaciated him
verb
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
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- The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
verb
become physically weaker
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- Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
adjective
located in a dismal or remote area
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- desolate
- a desert island
- a godforsaken wilderness crossroads
- a wild stretch of land
- waste places