waste
— Verb
– English
～ cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
waste
— Verb
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～ use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
waste
— Verb
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～ become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
waste
— Verb
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～ run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"
waste
— Adjective
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～ located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
wasted
— Adjective
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～ not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
wasted
— Adjective
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～ 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"
wasted
— Adjective
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～ 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"
wasted
— Adjective
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～ (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"
wasteful
— Adjective
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～ inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"
wasteful
— Adjective
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～ laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare
wasteful
— Adjective
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～ tending to squander and waste
wastefully
— Adverb
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～ to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree; "we are still prodigally rich compared to others"
wastefulness
— Noun
– English
～ the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"