English to English adjective
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(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | | Example: partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm
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serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | | Example: otiose lines in a play advice is wasted words a pointless remark a life essentially purposeless senseless violence
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not used to good advantage | | Example: squandered money cannot be replaced a wasted effort
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very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | | Example: 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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