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wasted

/wey-stid/US // ˈweɪ stɪd //UK // (ˈweɪstɪd) //

浪费了,浪费的,荒废了,浪费

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : waste.
    • : done to no avail; useless: wasted efforts.
    • : physically or psychologically exhausted; debilitated: to be wasted by a long illness.
    • : Slang. overcome by the influence of alcohol or drugs.
    • : Archaic. gone by.

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Examples

  • Like a chess player trying to win a game in as few moves as possible, the AI will aim to help KoBold reach a decision about a prospect with minimal wasted effort—whether that decision is to drill in a particular spot or walk away.

  • Your body is pretty adept at automatically searching for the most efficient movement patterns and avoiding wasted energy.

  • Excited, Shaheen wasted no time and began interviewing surgeons, deciding upon Dr. Curtis Crane in Greenbrae, California.

  • Prosecutor Alessandro Leopizzi wasted no time in repeating the transcript to ask Schettino to confirm his words.

  • For those in the resource world, every ton of junk that goes into a landfill represents wasted energy.

  • An American general who “wasted” troops was looked on very unkindly by the civilian population and by the troops themselves.

  • When the fast food giant announced a merger with a Canadian chain, politicians wasted no time applying the special sauce.

  • Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.

  • The war which wasted the Athenians for 27 years, commonly called the Peloponnesian war, began May 7th.

  • And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

  • A woman with such capabilities would be wasted in the rle of a mere countess—but as the wife of an aspiring Liberal statesman!

  • I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.