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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wasted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wasted journey (=one that did not achieve the result you wanted)
▪ To avoid a wasted journey, ring first to check that the event is still on.
a wasted trip (=a trip in which you do not achieve what you wanted to)
▪ I’m afraid you’ve had a wasted trip. We don’t have those shoes in stock.
a wasted/lost/missed opportunity (=one you do not use)
▪ Many people see the failed talks as a missed opportunity for peace.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
costs
▪ She is now liable for the wasted costs of her abandoned case - more than £1,000.
▪ And, in accordance with the rules, a transcript of any wasted costs hearing must be made. 3.
▪ All courtroom advocates of all kinds are susceptible to wasted costs orders.
▪ The judge started to discuss figures as to the wasted costs.
▪ Courts and judges must be alert to the problems which may arise in connection with wasted costs hearings and orders.
▪ The judge's wasted costs order must be quashed.
▪ A solicitor threatened with a wasted costs order must always be given an opportunity to make representations before an order is made.
▪ There were on each circuit panels of barristers prepared to advise and act on behalf of any barrister threatened with a wasted costs order.
effort
▪ It could save you a lot of wasted effort and money.
▪ By providing clear goals and objectives, it minimises frustration and wasted effort. 4.
▪ The careful selection of the most logical buyers in order to reduce circulation size can therefore be a wasted effort.
▪ It would all be wasted effort, of course, if Balliol refused to be enticed out from Roxburgh Castle.
▪ Attempts to achieve sales without segmenting these markets would result in a great deal of wasted effort.
▪ If he thought he could manipulate her, he'd soon find out that it was a wasted effort.
▪ The price of all social improvement is effort, often wasted effort.
▪ This critique should not be understood to imply that experimental referential communication research is wasted effort.
journey
▪ Pembrooke had a wasted journey to Downpatrick yesterday.
▪ Not a wasted journey, after all, but she was anxious to carry on.
time
▪ He was decisive and never wasted time on second thoughts.
▪ That she should have wasted time crying over him was not just amazing, it was incredible.
▪ He seldom wasted time wondering why people wanted other people dead.
Time spent like this will not be wasted time.
▪ I walked back to the bar and wasted time with the barman.
▪ If the allies wasted time, the Soviet Union would establish effective control.
▪ And of course they will suffer consequences - at the very least those of wasted time and lost opportunities.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be wasted on sb
▪ The irony of the situation was not wasted on me.
▪ At seventy-three, her days were too short to be wasted on slumber.
▪ Compassion could only lead to increased confusion, for it would be wasted on her.
▪ He explained this with his usual tact, but tact was wasted on Mrs. Bidwell.
▪ Her effort was wasted on me.
▪ I fear your quaint down-home speech is wasted on me, my friend.
▪ It also tends to be grown locally so that less fuel is wasted on transporting it.
▪ It must be a proper justification which shows that your time is not likely to be wasted on a low priority.
▪ Nor did this luxury stimulate local production: it was wasted on foreign imports which could never become productive at home.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I felt as if my education had been wasted when I couldn't get a job.
▪ She thought back over the past four years - four wasted years married to a man who almost destroyed her.
▪ The government could have dealt with the problem there and then. It was a wasted opportunity.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Pembrooke had a wasted journey to Downpatrick yesterday.
▪ They clasped hers weakly and a smile flitted over the wasted features.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wasted

Waste \Waste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wasting.] [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F. g[^a]ter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr. vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosten, G. w["u]sten, AS. w[=e]stan. See Waste, a.]

  1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

    Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted, Art made a mirror to behold my plight.
    --Spenser.

    The Tiber Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
    --Dryden.

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

    Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
    --Num. xiv. 3

  3. O, were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!
    --Milton.

    Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and pain.
    --Milton.

    Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.
    --Robertson.

    3. To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

    The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living.
    --Luke xv. 13.

    Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
    --Gray.

  4. (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

    Syn: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wasted

late 14c., "enfeebled," past participle adjective from waste (v.). Slang meaning "intoxicated" is from 1950s.

Wiktionary
wasted
  1. 1 Not profitably used. 2 ravaged or deteriorated. 3 emaciated and haggard. 4 (context slang English) very drunk or stoned. 5 (context medicine English) low weight-for-height (for a person). v

  2. (en-past of: waste)

WordNet
wasted
  1. adj. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words" [syn: otiose, pointless, superfluous]

  2. not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort" [syn: squandered]

  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 an atrophied left arm" [syn: atrophied, diminished] [ant: hypertrophied]

  4. 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" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal]

  5. made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape" [syn: blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined]

Wikipedia
Wasted (L.A. Guns EP)

Wasted is an L.A. Guns EP featuring singer Ralph Saenz, who has since become the vocalist for Steel Panther. When asked about the Wasted EP while he was touring with the Atomic Punks in February 2002, Saenz told a fan: "That (Wasted) disc didn't even sell 12 copies!"

Wasted

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Wasted (Gucci Mane song)

"Wasted" is the official first single from Gucci Mane's sixth studio album The State vs. Radric Davis. The song features rapper Plies. The song was originally from Gucci Mane's 2009 mixtape, Guccimania.

Wasted (novel)

Wasted is Mark Johnson's memoir. As a child, he was severely mentally and physically abused by his father. When Mark escaped from where he lived, he turned to drugs and crime. His autobiography provides an account of his journey from self-destruction to self-fulfillment.

Born in the West Midlands in 1970, Mark became a prolific offender and embraced a lifestyle of consuming drugs and alcohol. When he escaped from his chaotic lifestyle, he set up a tree surgery business, which employed several ex-offenders and recovering addicts. Mark earned The Prince's Trust Young Achiever of the Year Award.

Wasted (comics)

Wasted is a comic book series written and drawn by Gerry Alanguilan and published by Alamat Comics since July 1994 through July 1996. It was first released as an eight-issue photocopied comics and later collected into one volume by Alamat Comics in 1998, releasing a total of 500 copies. The entire story was serialized in several parts on the pages of PULP Magazine in the Philippines beginning in 2000, and eventually compiled the story once again as Wasted: The Final Edition in 2003, releasing 2000 copies. The entire series is currently available to read online for free.

Comic book writer Warren Ellis considered Wasted "an early work by a potentially brilliant creator".

Wasted tells the story of Eric, a musician who loses his dad and his girlfriend, and goes on a rampage in the city looking for twisted justice and ultimately, death. Wasted was Gerry Alanguilan's first self-written comic, and was originally intended for only Alanguilan's close friends to read, as he was embarrassed by the large amount of violence and profanity in the title.

Wasted (Carrie Underwood song)

"Wasted" is a song written by Marv Green, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey, and recorded by American country music artist Carrie Underwood. It was released in February 2007 as the sixth and final single from her multi-platinum debut album, Some Hearts.

The single began receiving country radio airplay as an album track, causing it to place on the US Country chart weeks before its official release as a single.

In January 2007, Underwood filmed the video for the song in Tampa, Florida. This is now her fourth music video, and it was released during the beginning of February. The music video premiered on CMT Loaded.com.

Underwood performed the song on American Idol on March 8, 2007, after they paid her a tribute for her achievements since winning Idol in May 2005. She also performed the song live during the 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards on May 15.

Wasted (Jennifer Paige song)

"Wasted" is a song written by Chesney Hawkes and Jens Thoresen, and recorded by American singer Jennifer Paige. It was released in March 2008 as the first single from her studio album Best Kept Secret.

Wasted (Tiësto song)

"Wasted" is a song by Dutch musician, DJ and record producer Tiësto. The song features vocals from American singer Matthew Koma who co-wrote the song with Tiësto and Australian production duo Twice as Nice. "Wasted" was first released on April 25, 2014 through PM:AM Recordings as the second single from Tiësto's fifth studio album, A Town Called Paradise. It was featured in 2014 action comedy film 22 Jump Street.

Wasted (Margaret song)

"Wasted" is a single by Polish singer Margaret. The song was released as the first single from her debut studio album Add the Blonde on 15 January 2014. It was written by Thomas Karlsson, Emily Philips, Robert Uhlmann, Ant Whiting and Boris Potemkin.

The single reached number 6 on the Polish Airplay Chart.

Wasted (Def Leppard song)

Wasted” is a song by British rock band Def Leppard. It is the first single and seventh track from their debut album On Through the Night.

The recording featured on the single is a different version from the On Through the Night LP. The B-Side on the single is “Hello America”, which is also a different recording from the LP. These alternate, single-only versions of “Wasted” and “Hello America” have never been released on CD, except on bootlegs. The record was produced by Nick Tauber, whom the band selected because of his previous clients, particularly Thin Lizzy. Two other songs, " Rock Brigade" (also a re-recording) and "Glad I‘m Alive,” were recorded during the session but were shelved when the band’s management were displeased with the production, thus resulting in "Wasted" and "Hello America" being released as singles. Tauber’s versions of “Rock Brigade” and “Glad I’m Alive” remain unreleased.

Although Def Leppard has all but disowned On Through the Night, “Wasted” has nonetheless been played live occasionally on most tours to the present – being the only song from that album apart from six performances of “Rock Brigade” in 2005 and 2013 to be performed since the completion of the Pyromania tour.

Wasted (TV series)

Wasted is a six-episode British comedy TV series. It was written and created by Jon Foster and J.D. Lamont for E4. It began broadcasting with two episodes on 26 July 2016. The series' style has been compared to that of Spaced.

Usage examples of "wasted".

Eric sometimes beat the walls with his fists or shrieked when he was denied a game or treat, and since he wasted his own allotment, his mother often had to refuse his requests for part of hers.

Gage shot him a furious, anguished look, but Meriel wasted no time in grasping his leg and pulling it straight.

Bin Ladin and Atef wasted no time in assigning the Hamburg group to the most ambitious operation yet planned by al Qaeda.

The great plague which wasted Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and reappeared in the seventeenth, had been identified with a disease which yields to enlightened treatment, and its ancient virulence was attributed to ignorance of hygiene, and the filthy habits of a former age.

I recalled my early youth and the beatings given to students who were lazy or who wasted expensive paints, and the blows of the bastinado, which landed on the soles of their feet until they bled.

There was a freshness and breeziness, too, and an exhilarating sense of emancipation from all sorts of cares and responsibilities, that almost made us feel that the years we had spent in the close, hot city, toiling and slaving, had been wasted and thrown away.

There were brewery papers already spread out on the desk: she and Tobias between them had obviously wasted no time.

Nutrition is imperfect and some of the excretory organs are not properly performing their functions, or, perhaps, some portion of the body is being too rapidly wasted.

Unless the Skyhook arrived before the expiry of the deadline, at midnight the following night, then it would all have been wasted, all have been for nothing.

We wasted a ton of time arguing for continued funding, foisting off newshounds who wanted this whole thing to be a media extravaganza instead of an anthropological experiment, and just plain surviving from day to day.

I took the copy of Woman, the Wasted Sex, or, The Swindle of Housewifery to a luncheon meeting of LA at the drugstore.

He had ridden for hours on end, following Merel wherever she led, held firm in the grip of determination to show her that her efforts had not been wasted, and that he was a man worth saving, j He remembered getting down from the horse, and stretching himself out as carefully as ho could upon the.

When the seal was made and their privacy ensured, Milner wasted no time getting to the matter at hand.

It had been necessary to fight and destroy for ever vast systems of loyalties and beliefs that divided, misled and wasted the energies of mankind.

The overdosage of amphetamines wasted the body away, turned matter into energy.