wasted
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(s) 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
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(s) not used to good advantage
- squandered money cannot be replaced
- a wasted effort
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(a) (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
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(s) 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