1. Not used to good advantage
   "a wasted effort";
   - squandered
    
2. Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
   "advice is wasted words";
   - otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous
    
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 a wasted left arm";
   - atrophied, diminished
    
4. Very thin especially from disease, hunger or cold
   "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration";
   - cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal
    
5. [informal] Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got wasted in the bar downstairs";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], drunk, bombed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], stinko [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], blootered [UK, dialect], paralytic [Brit, informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], swacked [N. Amer, informal], steaming [informal], trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], tanked up [informal], screwed [informal], lit up [slang], out of it [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], blitzed [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]
    
6. Under the influence of drugs
   "He was totally wasted after smoking that joint"

1. Spend thoughtlessly; throw away
   "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends";
   - blow [informal], squander
    
2. Use inefficiently or inappropriately
   "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
    
3. Spend extravagantly
   "waste not, want not";
   - consume, squander, ware [archaic]
    
4. Deliberately discard or dispose of
   "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"; "The factory wasted the damaged stock"
    
5. Run off as waste
   "The water wastes back into the ocean";
   - run off
    
6. Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
   "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion";
   - lay waste to, devastate, desolate, ravage, lay waste
    
7. Lose vigour, health, or flesh, as through grief
   "She wasted away after the loss of her spouse";
   - pine away, languish [archaic]
    
8. Cause to grow thin or weak
   "The treatment wasted him";
   - emaciate, macerate
    
9. Become physically weaker
   "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world";
   - rot
    
10. [informal] Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
    "the double agent was wasted";
    - neutralize, neutralise [Brit], liquidate, knock off [informal], do in [informal], clip [informal], whack [informal], take out [informal]

1. Second person singular past form of 'be'
   "Thou wast there when it happened"

See also: bump off [informal], croak [informal], despatch [Brit], dispatch, drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, lean, lost, meager [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], murder, off [N. Amer, informal], polish off [informal], ripped [informal], skunked [informal], slay [literary], thin, worthless

Type of: apply, cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, consume, course, debilitate, degenerate, deplete, destroy, deteriorate, devolve, discard, dispose, drain, drop, eat, eat up, employ, enfeeble, exhaust, expend, feed, fling, flow, kill, put away, ruin, run, run through, spend, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out, use, use up, utilise [Brit], utilize, weaken, wipe out

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