1. (

• waste ,
• blow ,
• squander ,

) spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree" ;

2. (

• waste ,

) use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" ;

3. (

• waste ,

) get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" ;

4. (

• waste ,
• run_off ,

) run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean" ;

5. (

• neutralize ,
• neutralise ,
• liquidate ,
• waste ,
• knock_off ,
• do_in

) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" ;

6. (

• consume ,
• squander ,
• waste ,
• ware

) spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" ;

7. (

• pine_away ,
• waste ,
• languish

) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" ;

8. (

• waste ,
• emaciate ,
• macerate ,

) cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" ;

9. (

• lay_waste_to ,
• waste ,
• devastate ,
• desolate ,
• ravage ,
• scourge ,

) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" ;

10. (

• waste ,
• rot

) become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" ;

1. (

• otiose ,
• pointless ,
• purposeless ,
• senseless ,
• superfluous ,
• 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" ;

2. (

• squandered ,
• wasted

) not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort" ;

3. (

• atrophied ,
• wasted ,
• diminished ,

) (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" ;

4. (

• cadaverous ,
• emaciated ,
• gaunt ,
• haggard ,
• pinched ,
• skeletal ,
• wasted

) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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" ;