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    wast·ed
    [ˈwāstəd]
    adjective
    wasted (adjective)
    1. used or expended carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
      "wasted fuel" · "a wasted opportunity"
      • (of an action) not producing the desired result:
        "I'm sorry you've had a wasted journey"
    2. (of a person or a part of the body) weak or emaciated:
      "her wasted arm"
    3. informal
      under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs:
      "he looked kind of wasted"
    waste
    [wāst]
    verb
    wasted (past tense) · wasted (past participle)
    1. use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
      "we can't afford to waste electricity" · "I don't use the car, so why should I waste precious money on it?"
      • (be wasted on)
        bestow or expend on an unappreciative recipient:
        "her small talk was wasted on this guest"
      • (be wasted)
        fail to make full or good use of:
        "we're wasted in this job"
    2. (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated:
      "she was visibly wasting away"
      • archaic
        make progressively weaker and more emaciated:
        "these symptoms wasted the patients very much"
    3. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
      informal
      kill or severely injure (someone):
      "I saw them waste the guy I worked for"
    4. literary
      devastate or ruin (a place):
      "he seized their cattle and wasted their country"
    5. literary
      (of time) pass away; be spent:
      "the years were wasting"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.
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    adjective
    1. used or expended carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
    2. (of a person or a part of the body) weak or emaciated:
    3. under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs:
      Opposite:
     
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    wasted adjective wast·​ed ˈwā-stəd Synonyms of wasted 1 : laid waste : ravaged 2 : impaired in strength or health : emaciated
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    Definition of wasted adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary wasted adjective /ˈweɪstɪd/ /ˈweɪstɪd/ [only before noun] (of an action) unsuccessful because it does not produce the result you wanted
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