Definition of wasted

"wasted" in the verb sense

1. waste, blow, squander

spend thoughtlessly throw away

"He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"

"You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

2. waste

use inefficiently or inappropriately

"waste heat"

"waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"

3. waste

get rid of

"We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"

4. waste, run off

run off as waste

"The water wastes back into the ocean"

5. 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"

6. consume, squander, waste, ware

spend extravagantly

"waste not, want not"

7. pine away, waste, languish

lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

"After her husband died, she just pined away"

8. waste, emaciate, macerate

cause to grow thin or weak

"The treatment emaciated him"

9. lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge

cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

10. waste, rot

become physically weaker

"Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

"wasted" in the adjective sense

1. 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"

2. squandered, wasted

not used to good advantage

"squandered money cannot be replaced"

"a wasted effort"

3. 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"

4. cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

"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"

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Quotations for wasted

Time wasted is existence; used, is life. [ Young ]

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. [ William Shakespeare ]

Brook! whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious painter doth pursue
Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks.
And tracks thee dancing down thy waterbreaks. [ Wordsworth ]

No class escapes them - from the poor man's pay
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
Time, too, with cash is wasted; 'tis the fate
Of real helpers, to be called too late;
This find the sick, when time and patience gone
Death with a tenfold terror hurries on. [ Crabbe ]

He who knows most grieves most for wasted time. [ Dante ]

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. [ Dickens ]

Caution, though very often wasted. is a good risk to take. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. [ Longfellow ]

There is nothing more precious than time, and nothing more prodigally wasted. [ Proverb ]

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The term of man's life is half wasted before he has done with his mistakes and begins to profit by his lessons. [ Jane Taylor ]

wasted in Scrabble®

The word wasted is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters wasted:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word wasted

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In wasted

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wasted in Words With Friends™

The word wasted is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters wasted:

WASTED
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word wasted

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Words within the letters of wasted

2 letter words in wasted (5 words)

5 letter words in wasted (7 words)

6 letter words in wasted (1 word)

wasted + 1 blank (6 words)

Words containing the sequence wasted

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Words with wasted in them (1 word)

Words that end with wasted (2 words)

Word Growth involving wasted

Shorter words in wasted

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Longer words containing wasted

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