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单词 wasted
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Wasted
vverb.possessionspend thoughtlessly; throw away
Synset:blow squander waste
Examples:
  • He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
  • You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
Antonyms:conserve
Derivationally Related Form:wasterwastesquanderer
Hypernyms:expend use
Inherited Hypernyms:wasteuse
Direct Hyponyms:burn
Full Troponyms:burn
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something
vverb.consumptionuse inefficiently or inappropriately
Examples:
  • waste heat
  • waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
Derivationally Related Form:waste
Hypernyms:apply employ use utilise utilize
Inherited Hypernyms:wasteuse
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
vverb.possessionget rid of
Examples:
  • We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
Derivationally Related Form:waste
Hypernyms:cast aside cast away cast out chuck out discard dispose fling put away throw away throw out toss toss away toss out
Inherited Hypernyms:wastediscardget rid of
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something
vverb.motionrun off as waste
Synset:run off waste
Examples:
  • The water wastes back into the ocean
Derivationally Related Form:runoffwaste
Hypernyms:course feed flow run
Inherited Hypernyms:wasterunmove
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Something is ---ing PP
vverb.contactget rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
Synset:do in knock off liquidate neutralise neutralize waste
Examples:
  • The mafia liquidated the informer
  • the double agent was neutralized
Derivationally Related Form:liquidatorliquidation
Hypernyms:kill
Inherited Hypernyms:neutralizekill
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | They want to --- the prisoners (apply to: liquidate, waste, knock off, do in)
vverb.consumptionspend extravagantly
Synset:consume squander ware waste
Examples:
  • waste not, want not
Derivationally Related Form:wasterwastesquanderingsquanderer
Hypernyms:drop expend spend
Inherited Hypernyms:consumespendpaygivetransfer
Direct Hyponyms:dissipatedrinkflingfoolfool awayfritterfritter awayfrivol awaylavishluxuriateoverspendshootshowersplurgetopewanton
Full Troponyms:drinkfritterlavishluxuriateoverspendsplurge
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s (apply to: waste)
vverb.changelose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
Synset:languish pine away waste
Examples:
  • After her husband died, she just pined away
Derivationally Related Form:wastagelanguisher
Hypernyms:weaken
Inherited Hypernyms:pine awayweakendecreasechange magnitudechange
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Somebody ---s
vverb.changecause to grow thin or weak
Synset:emaciate macerate waste
Examples:
  • The treatment emaciated him
Derivationally Related Form:macerationwastageemaciationwasting
Hypernyms:debilitate drain enfeeble
Inherited Hypernyms:wasteenfeebleweakenchange
Causes:emaciate
Sentence Frame:Something ---s somebody
vverb.changecause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Synset:desolate devastate lay waste to ravage scourge waste
Examples:
  • The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
Derivationally Related Form:wasterdesolationravagingravagedevastationscourge
Hypernyms:destroy ruin
Inherited Hypernyms:lay waste todestroy
Direct Hyponyms:ruin
Full Troponyms:ruin
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
vverb.bodybecome physically weaker
Synset:rot waste
Examples:
  • Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
Derivationally Related Form:wastage
Hypernyms:degenerate deteriorate devolve drop
Inherited Hypernyms:wastedevolveworsenchange statechange
Direct Hyponyms:gangrenemortifynecrosesphacelate
Full Troponyms:necrose
Sentence Frame:Something ---s
adj satadj.allserving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
Synset:otiose pointless purposeless senseless superfluous
Examples:
  • otiose lines in a play
  • advice is wasted words
  • a pointless remark
  • a life essentially purposeless
  • senseless violence
Antonyms:valuable
Derivationally Related Form:pointlessnesspurposelessnesssenselessness
Inherited Hypernyms:otiose
Similar to:worthless
adj satadj.allnot used to good advantage
Synset:squandered
Examples:
  • squandered money cannot be replaced
  • a wasted effort
Antonyms:found
Inherited Hypernyms:squandered
Similar to:lost
adjadj.all(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
Synset:atrophied diminished
Examples:
  • partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm
Antonyms:hypertrophied
Inherited Hypernyms:atrophied
adj satadj.allvery thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Synset:cadaverous emaciated gaunt haggard pinched skeletal
Examples:
  • 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
Antonyms:fat
Derivationally Related Form:gauntness
Inherited Hypernyms:cadaverous
Similar to:lean thin
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