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# wasted

«wasted» in Mova's school dictionary: **used badly or carelessly, or lost without being useful** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (waste, wastes, wasted, wasting); adjective (wasted)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wasted means used badly or carelessly, or lost without being useful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#m1)

2) A wasted chance or wasted time brought nothing good. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#m2)

3) Wasted can mean very thin and weak from illness (rare). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#m3)

4) Waste (noun) is rubbish or things thrown away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: an amount lost and taken away; what is left = total − wasted. In science and everyday life: wasted water, food and energy; saving energy by turning off lights; recycling so less is wasted. Phrases: «wasted time», «a wasted trip», «go to waste», «waste of time».

### examples

- He wasted 3 of the 20 sheets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#x1)
- Half the water was wasted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#x2)
- How much food was wasted? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#x3)
- 10 minutes were wasted waiting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#x4)
- Leaving the tap running means water is wasted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#x5)
- It was a wasted trip because the shop was closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#x6)
- Don't let that good food go to waste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#x7)
- Turning off the lights stops energy from being wasted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#x8)
- What, all that money wasted for nothing! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/#x9)

### note

Past of «waste»: «wasted». Do not confuse «waste» with «waist» (the middle of your body) — they sound the same. Maths: take away from the total; what is left = total − wasted. Trap: «only 2 were wasted» still means subtract 2.

### In the corpora

- [So nothing is wasted: summer grass becomes winter food, winter muck becomes spring fertiliser, and the next year starts again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/7/)
- [Will something be damaged or wasted?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/4/)
- [The lesson was wasted, and he had to own up and make a practice chart for the fridge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/8/)
- [Zara wasted an hour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/444-free-skins-and-scams-in-games/24/)
- [Effort that ends in a collapse or a loss is not wasted; the skills and learning stay with you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/24-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wasted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.