wasted 音标拼音: [w'estəd] [w'estɪd]
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wasted adj 1 :
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 " [
synonym : {
otiose }, {
pointless },
{
purposeless }, {
senseless }, {
superfluous }, {
wasted }]
2 :
not used to good advantage ; "
squandered money cannot be replaced "; "
a wasted effort " [
synonym : {
squandered }, {
wasted }]
3 : (
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 " [
synonym :
{
atrophied }, {
wasted }, {
diminished }] [
ant : {
enlarged },
{
hypertrophied }]
4 :
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 " [
synonym : {
bony }, {
cadaverous }, {
emaciated },
{
gaunt }, {
haggard }, {
pinched }, {
skeletal }, {
wasted }]
Waste \
Waste \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Wasted };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Wasting }.] [
OE .
wasten ,
OF .
waster ,
guaster ,
gaster ,
F .
g [^
a ]
ter to spoil ,
L .
vastare to devastate ,
to lay waste ,
fr .
vastus waste ,
desert ,
uncultivated ,
ravaged ,
vast ,
but influenced by a kindred German word ;
cf .
OHG .
wuosten ,
G .
w ["
u ]
sten ,
AS .
w [=
e ]
stan .
See {
Waste },
a .]
[
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1 .
To bring to ruin ;
to devastate ;
to desolate ;
to destroy .
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Thou barren ground ,
whom winter '
s wrath hath wasted ,
Art made a mirror to behold my plight . --
Spenser .
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The Tiber Insults our walls ,
and wastes our fruitful grounds .
--
Dryden .
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2 .
To wear away by degrees ;
to impair gradually ;
to diminish by constant loss ;
to use up ;
to consume ;
to spend ;
to wear out .
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Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness .
--
Num .
xiv .
33 .
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O ,
were I able To waste it all myself ,
and leave ye none ! --
Milton .
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Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and pain . --
Milton .
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Wasted by such a course of life ,
the infirmities of age daily grew on him . --
Robertson .
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3 .
To spend unnecessarily or carelessly ;
to employ prodigally ;
to expend without valuable result ;
to apply to useless purposes ;
to lavish vainly ;
to squander ;
to cause to be lost ;
to destroy by scattering or injury .
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The younger son gathered all together ,
and . . .
wasted his substance with riotous living . --
Luke xv .
13 .
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen ,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air . --
Gray .
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4 . (
Law )
To damage ,
impair ,
or injure ,
as an estate ,
voluntarily ,
or by suffering the buildings ,
fences ,
etc .,
to go to decay .
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Syn :
To squander ;
dissipate ;
lavish ;
desolate .
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157 Moby Thesaurus words for "
wasted ":
Sanforized ,
ablated ,
acarpous ,
arid ,
atrophied ,
attenuated ,
ausgespielt ,
bankrupt ,
barren ,
blasted ,
blighted ,
brittle ,
broken ,
burned -
out ,
burnt up ,
by the board ,
cadaverous ,
celibate ,
childless ,
consumed ,
corky ,
corpselike ,
depleted ,
desert ,
desiccated ,
desolate ,
desolated ,
destroyed ,
devastated ,
devitalized ,
disabled ,
dissipated ,
done for ,
done in ,
down the drain ,
down -
and -
out ,
drained ,
dried -
up ,
dry ,
eaten up ,
effete ,
emacerated ,
emaciate ,
emaciated ,
enervated ,
enfeebled ,
eroded ,
eviscerated ,
exhausted ,
expended ,
fallen ,
fallow ,
fatigued ,
finished ,
forfeit ,
forfeited ,
fruitless ,
gaunt ,
gelded ,
gone ,
gone to pot ,
gone to waste ,
haggard ,
hollow -
eyed ,
impotent ,
impoverished ,
in ruins ,
incapacitated ,
ineffectual ,
infecund ,
infertile ,
irremediable ,
irretrievable ,
issueless ,
jejune ,
kaput ,
leached ,
long -
lost ,
lost ,
lost to ,
marantic ,
marasmic ,
meager ,
menopausal ,
misspent ,
nonfertile ,
nonproducing ,
nonproductive ,
nonprolific ,
out the window ,
overthrown ,
papery ,
parched ,
parchmenty ,
peaked ,
peaky ,
pinched ,
played out ,
poor ,
preshrunk ,
puny ,
ravaged ,
ruined ,
ruinous ,
run to seed ,
run -
down ,
sapped ,
sear ,
sere ,
shriveled ,
shriveled up ,
shrunk ,
shrunken ,
sine prole ,
skeletal ,
spent ,
spoiled ,
squandered ,
starved ,
starveling ,
sterile ,
sucked dry ,
tabetic ,
tabid ,
teemless ,
thin ,
uncultivated ,
underfed ,
undernourished ,
undone ,
unfertile ,
unfruitful ,
unplowed ,
unproductive ,
unprolific ,
unsown ,
untilled ,
used ,
used up ,
virgin ,
waste ,
wasted away ,
weakened ,
weazened ,
weazeny ,
wilted ,
withered ,
without issue ,
wizen ,
wizen -
faced ,
wizened ,
worn ,
worn away ,
worn -
out ,
wraithlike ,
wrecked ,
wrinkled
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