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Adjective: wasted weystud- Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
"advice is wasted words"
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Verb: wast
Usage: archaic
- Second person singular past form of be
Verb: waste weyst- Spend thoughtlessly; throw away
"He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"
- blow, squander - Use inefficiently or inappropriately
"waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" - Get rid of
"We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" - Run off as waste
"The water wastes back into the ocean"
- run off - Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- neutralize, neutralise [Brit], liquidate, knock off, do in - Spend extravagantly
"waste not, want not"
- consume, squander, ware - Lose vigour, health, or flesh, as through grief
- pine away, languish - Cause to grow thin or weak
- emaciate, macerate - Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- lay waste to, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge, lay waste - Become physically weaker
"Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
- rot
See also: drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, lean, lost, thin, wastage, waster, wasting, worthless Type of: apply, cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, course, debilitate, degenerate, destroy, deteriorate, devolve, discard, dispose, drain, drop, employ, enfeeble, expend, feed, fling, flow, kill, put away, ruin, run, spend, spifflicate, spiflicate, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out, use, utilise [Brit], utilize, weaken Antonym: conserve Encyclopedia: Waste Waste, radioactive Wasted |