overwasted

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adjective

Wasted or worn out; consumed; spent.

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Meanings

adjectiveoverwasted (comparative more overwasted, superlative most overwasted)

comparative more overwasted · superlative most overwasted

  1. obsoleteWasted or worn out; consumed; spent.
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    VVhen in the Tumult, vvith the ſudden Fright, / VVhilſt eu'ry one for Safetie ſought about, / And none regarded to maintaine the Light, / VVhich being ouer-vvaſted, vvas gone out, / It being then the mid time of the Night, / […] / The Queene alone (at leaſt, if any neare) / They vvere her VVomen, almoſt dead vvith feare.

    1630, Michael Drayton, “The Barons Warres. In the Reigne of Edward the Second. The Sixt Canto.”, in Poems: […], London: […] Willi[am] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, →OCLC, stanza 73, page 148

Origin

From over- + wasted.

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