Verb

• S: (v) waste, blow, squander (spend thoughtlessly; throw away) "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
• S: (v) waste (use inefficiently or inappropriately) "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
• S: (v) waste (get rid of) "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
• S: (v) waste, run off (run off as waste) "The water wastes back into the ocean"
• S: (v) 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"
• S: (v) consume, squander, waste, ware (spend extravagantly) "waste not, want not"
• S: (v) pine away, waste, languish (lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief) "After her husband died, she just pined away"
• S: (v) waste, emaciate, macerate (cause to grow thin or weak) "The treatment emaciated him"
• S: (v) lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly) "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
• S: (v) waste, rot (become physically weaker) "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

Adjective

• S: (adj) 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"
• S: (adj) squandered, wasted (not used to good advantage) "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
• S: (adj) 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"
• S: (adj) 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"