Overview of verb waste

The verb waste has 10 senses

• waste, blow, squander -- (spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree")


• waste -- (use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience")


• waste -- (get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer")


• waste, run off -- (run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean")


• neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in -- (get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized")


• consume, squander, waste, ware -- (spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not")


• pine away, waste, languish -- (lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away")


• waste, emaciate, macerate -- (cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him")


• lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge -- (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion")


• waste, rot -- (become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world")

Overview of adj wasted

The adj wasted has 4 senses

• otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, 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")


• squandered, wasted -- (not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort")


• atrophied, wasted, diminished -- ((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")


• bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, 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")