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SQUANDER

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spend extravagantly

Example:

waste not, want not

Synonyms:

consume; squander; ware; waste

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

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

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "squander"):

drink; tope (drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic)

dissipate; fool; fool away; fritter; fritter away; frivol away; shoot (spend frivolously and unwisely)

luxuriate; wanton (become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously)

lavish; shower (expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns)

overspend (spend at a high rate)

fling; splurge (indulge oneself)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

squanderer (a recklessly extravagant consumer)

squandering (spending resources lavishly and wastefully)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spend thoughtlessly; throw away

Example:

You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree

Synonyms:

blow; squander; waste

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

expend; use (use up, consume fully)

Verb group:

blow (spend lavishly or wastefully on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "squander"):

burn (spend (significant amounts of money))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

squanderer (a recklessly extravagant consumer)

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