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wast·ed

(wā′stĭd)

adj.

1. Not profitably used or maintained: a wasted inheritance.

2. Needless or superfluous: These are wasted words.

3. Deteriorated; ravaged: a wasted landscape.

4. Frail and enfeebled, as from prolonged illness; emaciated.

5. Slang Drunk or intoxicated.

6. Archaic Having elapsed.

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wasted

(ˈweɪstɪd)

adj

1. not exploited or taken advantage of: a wasted opportunity.

2. useless or unprofitable: wasted effort.

3. (Medicine) physically enfeebled and emaciated: a thin wasted figure.

4. (Recreational Drugs) slang showing signs of habitual drug abuse

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wast•ed

(ˈweɪ stɪd)

adj.

1. useless; unavailing: wasted efforts.

2. physically debilitated; enfeebled: the wasted bodies of the hostages.

3. Slang. overcome by the influence of alcohol or drugs.

4. Archaic. (of time) gone by.

[1400–50]

wast′ed•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	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" otiose, superfluous, pointless, purposeless, senseless worthless - lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"
	2.	wasted - not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort" squandered lost - no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"
	3.	wasted - (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" atrophied, diminished
	4.	wasted - 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" bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

wasted

adjective

1. useless, unnecessary, pointless, needless I'm sorry you had a wasted journey.

2. missed, lost, blown (informal), neglected, squandered a wasted opportunity to help

3. emaciated, weak, weakened, withered, frail, skeletal, shrivelled, shrunken, atrophied, scrawny, wizened exercises designed to help build up his wasted limbs

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wasted

adjective

Physically haggard:

cadaverous, drawn, emaciated, gaunt, shrunken, skeletal.

Idiom: skin and bones.

Translations

mal aprovechado

sprecato

wasted

[ˈweɪstɪd] ADJ

1. (= lost, useless) [opportunity] → desaprovechado, desperdiciado; [effort] → inútil; [years] → perdido
at least it hadn't been an entirely wasted day → por lo menos no había sido un día completamente perdido
I'm afraid you've had a wasted journey → me temo que has hecho un viaje inútil or en vano
a vote for them is a wasted vote → votar por ellos es desaprovechar el voto

2. (= thin) [person] → consumido; [muscle] → atrofiado; [arm, leg, hand] → atrofiado, inútil

3.1. (from drugs) → destrozado

3.2. (from drink) → borracho
to get wasted → emborracharse

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

wasted

[ˈweɪstɪd] adj

to have a wasted journey → faire un voyage pour rien
I'm sorry you had a wasted journey → Je suis désolé que vous ayez fait le voyage pour rien.

(= weak) [person] → affaibli(e)waste disposal n (British) → traitement m des déchetswaste disposal unit waste disposal, waste disposer (British) n → broyeur m à ordures

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

wasted

adj

I’ve had a wasted journey → ich bin umsonst hingefahren; a vote for him is a wasted vote → ihn zu wählen heißt eine Stimme verschenken

(= emaciated) organs, muscles → geschwächt; (inf: = worn out) → verbraucht, ausgelaugt (inf)

(sl: = drunk, high) → dicht (sl), → platt (sl), → breit (sl)

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wasted

[ˈweɪstɪd] adj

a. (efforts) → sprecato/a, inutile

b. (face, from disease, starvation) → scarno/a; (limbs, from disease) → atrofizzato/a

wasted

a. desgastado-a, malgastado-a; [person] demacrado-a; consumido-a.

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When he told her he would not let Elzbieta take her money, she answered indifferently: "Then it'll be wasted here--that's all." Her eyelids looked heavy and her face was red and swollen; he saw that he was annoying her, that she only wanted him to go away.

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Or, on becoming too weak to go out of doors, I should sit propped up with pillows at the open window of the ground-floor front, and look wasted and interesting, so that all the pretty girls would sigh as they passed by.

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"It seems a pity you wasted two years in Paris," said Hayward.

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