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wasted
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wast·ed  (wstd)
adj.
1. Not profitably used or maintained: a wasted inheritance.
2. Needless or superfluous: These are wasted words.
3. Deteriorated; ravaged: a wasted landscape.
4. Frail and enfeebled, as from prolonged illness; emaciated.
5. Slang Drunk or intoxicated.
6. Archaic Having elapsed.

wasted [ˈweɪstɪd]
adj
1. not exploited or taken advantage of a wasted opportunity
2. useless or unprofitable wasted effort
3. (Medicine) physically enfeebled and emaciated a thin wasted figure
4. (Law / Recreational Drugs) Slang showing signs of habitual drug abuse
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.wasted - 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"
worthless - lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"
2.wasted - not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
lost - no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"
3.wasted - (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"
4.wasted - 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"
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

wasted
adjective
1. useless, unnecessary, pointless, needless I'm sorry you had a wasted journey.
2. missed, lost, blown (informal), neglected, squandered a wasted opportunity to help
3. emaciated, weak, weakened, withered, frail, skeletal, shrivelled, shrunken, atrophied, scrawny, wizened exercises designed to help build up his wasted limbs
Translations
wasted [ˈweɪstɪd] ADJ
1. (= lost, useless) [opportunity] → desaprovechado, desperdiciado; [effort] → inútil; [years] → perdido
at least it hadn't been an entirely wasted daypor lo menos no había sido un día completamente perdido
I'm afraid you've had a wasted journeyme temo que has hecho un viaje inútil or en vano
a vote for them is a wasted votevotar por ellos es desaprovechar el voto
2. (= thin) [person] → consumido; [muscle] → atrofiado; [arm, leg, hand] → atrofiado, inútil
3.
3.1. (from drugs) → destrozado
3.2. (from drink) → borracho
to get wastedemborracharse
wasted [ˈweɪstɪd] adj
to have a wasted journey → faire un voyage pour rien
I'm sorry you had a wasted journey → Je suis désolé que vous ayez fait le voyage pour rien.
(= weak) [person] → affaibli(e)
waste disposal n (British)traitement m des déchets
waste disposal unit waste disposal, waste disposer (British) nbroyeur m à ordures
wasted
adj
I’ve had a wasted journeyich bin umsonst hingefahren; a vote for him is a wasted voteihn zu wählen heißt eine Stimme verschenken
(= emaciated) organs, musclesgeschwächt; (inf: = worn out) → verbraucht, ausgelaugt (inf)
(sl: = drunk, high) → dicht (sl), → platt (sl), → breit (sl)
wasted [ˈweɪstɪd] adj
a. (efforts) → sprecato/a, inutile
b. (face, from disease, starvation) → scarno/a; (limbs, from disease) → atrofizzato/a


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