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Meaning of wasted

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  wasted
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {otiose}, {pointless},
             {purposeless}, {senseless}, {superfluous}, {wasted}]
      2: not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be
         replaced"; "a wasted effort" [syn: {squandered}, {wasted}]
      3: (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" [syn:
         {atrophied}, {wasted}, {diminished}] [ant: {enlarged},
         {hypertrophied}]
      4: 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" [syn: {bony}, {cadaverous}, {emaciated},
         {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal}, {wasted}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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