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wasted, ppl. a.|ˈweɪstɪd|
[f. waste v. + -ed1.]
1. Laid waste, devastated, ravaged, ruined.
c1440Promp. Parv. 517/2 Wastyd, vastatus. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xiv. 29 Sa mony waistit wawis. 1587in Border Papers (1894) I. 259 This ruinose and waysted cuntre. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. i. 23 As I earnestly did fixe mine eye Upon the wasted building. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 102 If young African for fame His wasted Country freed from Punic rage. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 689 Perfidious Mars..o'er the wasted World in Triumph rides. 1813Scott Trierm. iii. i, Of wasted fields and plundered flocks The Borderers bootless may complain. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 514 The sufferings of the thrice wasted Palatinate. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) IV. xviii. 197 Destroyed or wasted houses.
2. a. Diminished or reduced in substance, bulk, strength, health, etc.; worn, decayed.
1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 90 A waistit wolroun. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 112 Neither may we pretend this excuse that we want power, and like wasted detters be not able to pay. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 382 Now the wasted brands doe glow. 1653Waterhouse Apol. Learn. 74 No more then it follows that a wasted man must get a child unhail, because he himself is consumptive. 1709T. Robinson Nat. Hist. Westmorld. & Cumbld. vii. 47 Laid to Fallow, that it may..recover its wasted Strength. 1785Cowper Task i. 128 Youth repairs His wasted spirits quickly. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xi, Keeping her pale face and wasted figure as much out of sight as she could. 1867Morris Jason i. 372 And the thin, wasted, shining summer rills Grew joyful with the coming of the rain. 1883D. C. Murray Hearts xv, ‘You are better, Moore?’ Tom asked... ‘No,’ said the farmer in a wasted voice. 1919Blackw. Mag. Aug. 166/2 Ribs and bones showed through their wasted bodies.
†b. Morally marred or defiled. Obs.
1483Caxton Golden Leg. 188/b 2 Thou comest..whyche arte pure and clene to be baptysed and wasshen of me that am foule and wasted.
3. Spent, put forth, bestowed, used, unprofitably; squandered; misused; ‘thrown away’.
1741Watts Improv. Mind i. xx. §12 But let them take great care lest they intrench upon more necessary employments, and so fall under the charge and censure of wasted time. 1781Cowper Conversation 357 Our wasted oil unprofitably burns. 1785― Task iv. 225 A world..most pleas'd when idle most; Whose only happy are their wasted hours. 1883Whitelaw Sophocles, Oedipus King 365 Say what thou wilt: 'twill be but wasted breath. 1894Lady M. Verney Verney Mem. III. 352 His blighted hopes and wasted opportunities.
4. Of time: Gone by, elapsed.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. cvi, When in the Chronicle of wasted time, I see discriptions of the fairest wights. 1781Cowper Retirement 13 The remnant of his wasted span.
5. Intoxicated (from drink or drugs). Chiefly used outside the U.K.
1968–70Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) III–IV. 135 Wasted, a. Drunk; unable to function. 1972J. S. Gunn in G. W. Turner Good Austral. Eng. iii. 56 Being under the influence is..turned on, wasted. |