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(adjective) (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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Synonyms: atrophied, diminished |
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(satellite adjective) not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort" |
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Synonyms: squandered |
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(satellite adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words" |
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Synonyms: otiose, pointless, superfluous |
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(satellite adjective) made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape" |
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Synonyms: blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal |
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