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Adjective
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
- eyes were haggard and cavernous
- kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
- (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
- not used to good advantage
- squandered money cannot be replaced
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- a life essentially purposeless