Squander

[squan·der]

To squander means to spend extravagantly, thoughtlessly, or wastefully. If you need to save for college, don't squander your income on nightly sushi dinners.

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To scatter; to disperse.

Verb
spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

Verb
spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

v. t.
To scatter; to disperse.

v. t.
To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.

v. i.
To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.

v. i.
To wander at random; to scatter.

n.
The act of squandering; waste.

Squander

Squan"der , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Squandered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Squandering.] [Cf. Scot. squatter to splash water about, to scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqv'84tta to squirt, sqv'84ttra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw out water.] 1. To scatter; to disperse. [Obs.]
Our squandered troops he rallies.
2. To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.
The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly.
Syn. -- To spend; expend; waste; scatter; dissipate.

Squander

Squan"der, v. i. 1. To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
They often squandered, but they never gave.
2. To wander at random; to scatter. [R.]
The wise man's folly is anatomized Even by squandering glances of the fool.

Squander

Squan"der, n. The act of squandering; waste.

To scatter; to disperse.

To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.

The act of squandering; waste.

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Usage Examples

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

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Other Usage Examples

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.