wasted

Words with a similar base: wasted

'wasted'

[waste.v.01] as in: spend thoughtlessly; throw away

Examples:
He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree

'wasted'

[waste.v.02] as in: use inefficiently or inappropriately

Examples:
waste heat
waste a joke on an unappreciative audience

'wasted'

[waste.v.03] as in: get rid of

Examples:
We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer

'wasted'

[waste.v.04] as in: run off as waste

Examples:
The water wastes back into the ocean

'wasted'

[neutralize.v.04] as in: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

Examples:
The mafia liquidated the informer
the double agent was neutralized

'wasted'

[consume.v.03] as in: spend extravagantly

Examples:
waste not, want not

'wasted'

[pine_away.v.01] as in: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

Examples:
After her husband died, she just pined away

'wasted'

[waste.v.08] as in: cause to grow thin or weak

Examples:
The treatment emaciated him

'wasted'

[lay_waste_to.v.01] as in: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

Examples:
The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

'wasted'

[waste.v.10] as in: become physically weaker

Examples:
Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world

'wasted'

[otiose.s.01] as in: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

Examples:
otiose lines in a play
advice is wasted words
a pointless remark
a life essentially purposeless
senseless violence

'wasted'

[squandered.s.01] as in: not used to good advantage

Examples:
squandered money cannot be replaced
a wasted effort

'wasted'

[atrophied.a.01] as in: (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use

Examples:
partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm

'wasted'

[bony.s.01] as in: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Examples:
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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