| Pronunciation: | | w'eystud
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| Matching Terms: | | waste, waste basket, waste material, waste matter, waste of effort, waste of energy, waste of material, waste of money, waste of time, waste one's time, waste paper, waste pipe, waste product, wastebasket, wastebin, wasteboard, wastebook, wasteful, wastefully, wastefulness, wastel, wasteland, wasteness, wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, waster, wastethrift, wastewater, wasteweir, wasteyard
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- [adj] (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"
- [adj] made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
- [adj] serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"
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| | Synonyms: | | atrophied, blasted, bony, cadaverous, desolate, desolated, destroyed, devastated, diminished, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, lean, lost, otiose, pinched, pointless, ravaged, ruined, skeletal, squandered, superfluous, thin, worthless |
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| | Antonyms: | | enlarged, hypertrophied |
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