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.
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
Our squandered troops he rallies.2.
The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly.
Squander
They often squandered, but they never gave.2.
The wise man's folly is anatomized Even by squandering glances of the fool.
Squander
To scatter; to disperse.
To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
The act of squandering; waste.
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 ExamplesDost 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.
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