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wasted

English

  1. 🔊 (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”
  2. 🔊 not used to good advantage
    “squandered money cannot be replaced”
  3. 🔊 serving no useful purpose
    “otiose lines in a play”
  4. 🔊 very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
    “a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 desaprovechado wasted, squandered (such as a wasted opportunity)

Similar words

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