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wasted
[ wey-stid ]
adjective
- done to no avail; useless:
wasted efforts.
- physically or psychologically exhausted; debilitated:
to be wasted by a long illness.
- Slang. overcome by the influence of alcohol or drugs.
- Archaic. (of time) gone by.
wasted
/ ˈweɪstɪd /
adjective
- not exploited or taken advantage of
a wasted opportunity
- useless or unprofitable
wasted effort
- physically enfeebled and emaciated
a thin wasted figure
- slang.showing signs of habitual drug abuse
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Other Words From
- wasted·ness noun
- un·wasted adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Excited, Shaheen wasted no time and began interviewing surgeons, deciding upon Dr. Curtis Crane in Greenbrae, California.
Prosecutor Alessandro Leopizzi wasted no time in repeating the transcript to ask Schettino to confirm his words.
For those in the resource world, every ton of junk that goes into a landfill represents wasted energy.
An American general who “wasted” troops was looked on very unkindly by the civilian population and by the troops themselves.
When the fast food giant announced a merger with a Canadian chain, politicians wasted no time applying the special sauce.
Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.
The war which wasted the Athenians for 27 years, commonly called the Peloponnesian war, began May 7th.
And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.
A woman with such capabilities would be wasted in the rle of a mere countess—but as the wife of an aspiring Liberal statesman!
I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.
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