Squander

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste.
  • v. To fail to take advantage of; lose a chance for: squandered an opportunity to go to college.
  • v. Obsolete To scatter.
  • n. Extravagant expenditure; prodigality.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To waste, lavish, splurge
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To scatter; to disperse.
  • v. To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate.
  • verb-intransitive. To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
  • verb-intransitive. To wander at random; to scatter.
  • n. The act of squandering; waste.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To scatter; disperse.
  • To spend lavishly, profusely, or prodigally; dissipate; use without economy or judgment; lavish: as, to squander one's money or an estate.
  • To disperse; wander aimlessly; go at random.
  • To waste one's substance; go to wasteful expense; spend recklessly.
  • n. The act of squandering.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. spend thoughtlessly; throw away
  • v. spend extravagantly
  • Verb Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    scatter    waste    dissipate    expend    spend    lavish   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    blonder    conder    condor    fonder    ponder    responder    transponder    wander    yonder   
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