Wasted vs Basted - What's the difference?
wasted | basted |
Not profitably used.
Ravaged or deteriorated.
Emaciated and haggard.
(slang) very drunk or stoned.
(medicine) low weight-for-height (for a person).
(waste)
(baste)
To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=June 14, author=J.F. Pirro, title=Custom Work, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later. }}
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
(by extension) To coat over something
* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=April 20, author=Peter Margasak, title=Almost Famous, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Ice Cold Daydream" bastes the bayou funk of the Meters in swirling psychedelia, while "Sweet Thang," a swampy blues cowritten with his dad, sounds like something from Dr. John's "Night Tripper" phase. }}
To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
* Samuel Pepys
As verbs the difference between wasted and basted
is that wasted is (waste) while basted is (baste).As an adjective wasted
is not profitably used.wasted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)Anagrams
*basted
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*baste
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(bast)citation
Etymology 2
.Verb
(bast)citation
Etymology 3
Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian source. Compare (etyl) (whence (etyl) ). Compare also (etyl) and (etyl)Verb
(bast)- One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.