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wasted Adjective

— We say that something is wasted if it was not used, but should have been used, and now it can't be used. We forgot to put the food in the refrigerator to keep it cold, so it was all wasted. — Someone is wasted if they are very thin, as if they didn't eat enough. She doesn't look healthy. She looks wasted.

wasted

— adjective (= squandered) not used to good advantage squandered money cannot be replaced a wasted effort — adjective (= otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being otiose lines in a play advice is wasted words a pointless remark a life essentially purposeless senseless violence — adjective (= atrophied, diminished) (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 — adjective (= bony, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal) 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

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squandered lost emaciated decayed useless diminished bony atrophied vain skeletal gaunt exhausted destroyed waned unsuccessful trashy superfluous senseless purposeless pointless pinched perished otiose of no avail in vain haggard futile fruitless decrepit cadaverous cachectic attenuate worn out wizen well-oiled vanished unnecessary unfruitful unconstructive trashed thin tattered spoilt spoiled spent sozzled smashed sloshed shitfaced scrawny

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Person Life

Die

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go to your reward be wasted fall asleep croak depart breathe your last defunct grim reaper

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