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FRITTER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("fritter" is a kind of...):

friedcake (small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fritter"):

apple fritter (fritter containing sliced apple)

corn fritter (fritter containing corn or corn kernels)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spend frivolously and unwisely

Example:

Fritter away one's inheritance

Synonyms:

dissipate; fool; fool away; fritter; fritter away; frivol away; shoot

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "fritter" is one way to...):

consume; squander; ware; waste (spend extravagantly)

"Fritter" entails doing...:

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out (use up (resources or materials))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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