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WASTED

Definition:

[adjective] serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"
Synonyms: otiose, pointless, superfluous
[adjective] not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
Synonyms: squandered
[adjective] (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"
Synonyms: atrophied, diminished
[adjective] 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"
Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal
[adjective] made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
Synonyms: blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined