Unscramble wasted

Definition of wasted

adjective:

• 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". Synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous.
• not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced", "a wasted effort". Synonyms: squandered.
• (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". Synonyms: atrophied, diminished. Antonyms: hypertrophied.
• 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". Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal.

verb:

• spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends", "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree". Synonyms: blow, squander, waste. Antonyms: conserve.
• use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat", "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience". Synonyms: waste.
• get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer". Synonyms: waste.
• run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean". Synonyms: run off, waste.
• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer", "the double agent was neutralized". Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize, waste.
• spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not". Synonyms: consume, squander, ware, waste.
• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away". Synonyms: languish, pine away, waste.
• cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him". Synonyms: emaciate, macerate, waste.
• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion". Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste.
• become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world". Synonyms: rot, waste.

Related words

burn, dissipate, fling, fool, fritter, gangrene, lavish, luxuriate, mortify, necrose, overspend, ruin, shoot, shower, sphacelate, splurge, wanton.

Words nearby

masted, pasted, wanted, washed, waste, waster.

Rhymes with

pasted.