Word Finder - wasted

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To devastate, destroy

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To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.

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We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.

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To kill; to murder.

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To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

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Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.

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To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.

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To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

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Not profitably used.

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Ravaged or deteriorated.

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Emaciated and haggard.

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Very drunk or stoned.

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Low weight-for-height (for a person).

She'd wasted her first day of light.

I think you wasted your freedom.

Sarah wasted no time beginning her third degree.

Once back in Surry, I wasted no time in telephoning the number Brennan had given me to reach him.

She couldn't help thinking her life had been wasted and hoped she still had a chance to make it up to the one person who mattered.

Cynthia wasted no more time before getting down to business.

It will all be wasted on trifles.

I couldn't live with myself if I wasted this gift I've been given.

The first signs of the rising ferment in Spain were wasted on him.

He wasted no time finding himself a replacement when she refused his touch.

I'd probably have wasted him myself.

It should be added that the Greek War (1897) revealed to the sultan the decrepit state into which the Ottoman navy had fallen, and considerable " extraordinary " expenditure - much of which was wasted - has been incurred since (and including) 1902 to put the least out-of-date warships into a serviceable condition.

But much time had been wasted and many precious opportunities lost.

The country was wasted by the fury of this savage conqueror, but recovered something of its former prosperity under Ogdai Khan, his son, whose disposition was humane and benevolent.

Now you seem angry for having wasted your time studying it and going in circles to no effect or ill effect.

Their pleasure charmed away King Frost's anger, and he, too, began to admire the painted trees, and at last he said to himself, My treasures are not wasted if they make little children happy.

She felt bad for Rhyn, though she suspected the emotion was wasted on someone who didn't have a drop of self-pity.

It was mid-afternoon already, another day wasted with the Council rather than concentrating on preparing for battle.

What a pity, all that beauty and hot sex wasted.

Woman, in her wasted life, in her hurried death, here stands appealing to the society that degrades her, with a combination of eloquence and poetry, of forms of art at once instantaneous and permanent, and with great metrical energy and variety.

Shortly afterwards Bruce appears again to have sided with his countrymen; Annandale was wasted, while he, as Walter of Hemingford says, "when he heard of the king's coming, fled from his face and burnt the castle of Ayr which he held."

In March 1318 the town and soon afterwards the castle of Berwick capitulated, and Bruce wasted the English border as far as Ripon.

Therefore the tears and the blood that were shed were not unavailing; the heroism and the chivalry were not wasted.

Sawdust, slabs, stumps and large quantities of logs are wasted.

This line of princes continued till 1760 without any remarkable event, when, in the reign of Rao Ghodji, the country was invaded four times by the Sinds, who wasted it with fire and sword.

Invaluable time was wasted in negotiating with these intruders before the governor could safely devote himself to the task of expelling the Turk from the southern provinces.

His frame was sickly and wasted with disease, yet when clad in his red cardinal's.

We may form some idea of the extent and the severity of their incursions from the fact that at the beginning of the reign of Valdemar the whole of the Danish eastern coast lay wasted and depopulated.

Then the sword bent towards the earth, the sky darkened, thunder pealed, lightning flashed, and the whole world was wasted by famine, bloodshed and pestilence.

One may deplore his unfortunate history and wasted genius, but it is impossible to regret his exclusion from the government of England.

With an army of 60,000 Piedmontese troops and 30,000 men from other parts of Italy the king took the field, and after defeating the Austrians at Pastrengo on the 30th of April, and at Goito on the 30th of May, where he was himself slightly wounded, more time was wasted in useless operations.

Meanwhile two long hours had been wasted on the right whilst Grouchy and Vandamme deliberated over their plan of action in front of the Prussian brigade at Gilly; and it was not until the emperor himself again reached the front, about 5.30 P.M., that vigour replaced indecision.

In 737 B.C. Tiglath-Pileser again marched into Media, and in 735 he invaded Ararat and wasted the country round the capital Van to a distance of 450 miles.

The 4th century found Mutina in a state of decay; the ravages of Attila and the troubles of the Lombard period left it a ruined city in a wasted land.

Henceforth Absalon was the chief counsellor of Valdemar, and the promoter of that imperial policy which, for three generations, was to give Denmark the dominion of the Baltic. Briefly, it was Absalon's intention to clear the northern sea of the Wendish pirates, who inhabited that portion of the Baltic littoral which we now call Pomerania, and ravaged the Danish coasts so unmercifully that at the accession of Valdemar one-third of the realm of Denmark lay wasted and depopulated.

The time of respite had been wasted, all attempts at national reformation had failed; how should Yahweh spare a nation which had shown no tokens of fitness to discharge the vocation of Yahweh's people ?

In 1197, however, German jealousy of Denmark's ambitions, especially when Canute led a fleet against the pirates of Esthonia, induced Otto, margrave of Brandenburg, to invade Pomerania, while in the following year Otto, in conjunction with Duke Adolf of Holstein, wasted the dominions of the Danophil Abodrites.

More than $250,000,000 has been spent by the national government for the improvement of waterways, yet no general system exists, and a large part of this enormous sum has been wasted on unimportant or impossible projects, especially in recent decades, since the river navigation has been a declining interest.

If any of these is absent, the work is apt to be wasted.

The physical and intellectual forces of the people, labour and capital, are diverted for the greater part from their natural application and wasted unproductively.

He died, worn out and wasted with labour and absorbing care, while still in the prime of life, on the 7th of December 1834.

The petty rulers of these sections wasted their strength with internecine quarrels and proved quite incompetent to check the lawlessness of their feudal vassals.

In short, he deemed all time wasted that was not employed in study."

In 192 they wasted themselves in an unsuccessful attempt to secure Sparta.

The pathways should be paved with tiles, brick or stone, or made of concrete and cement, and the surface should be gently rounded so that the water required for evaporation may drain to the sides while the centre is sufficiently dry to walk upon; they should also have brick or stone edgings to prevent the water so applied soaking away at the sides and thus being wasted.

In other parts of the coast the dunes, though not pierced through, have become so wasted by erosion as to require artificial strengthening.

But the two stadholders had not wasted the time.

Here each mould and each ingot was handled as a separate unit twice, instead of only once as in the car casting system; the ingots radiated away great quantities of heat in passing naked from the converting mill to the soaking furnaces, and the heat which they and the moulds radiated while in the converting mill was not only wasted, but made this mill, open-doored as it was, so intolerably hot, that the cost of labour there was materially increased.

Conditionally the Union promised assistance to Frederick, but he wasted several months and vaguely hoped that the English king would help him out of his embarrassments.

Many nobles, whose lands had been wasted during the war, flocked to the little capitals to make their way by contemptible court services.