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squan·der

 (skwŏn′dər)
tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders
1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste.
2. To fail to take advantage of: squandered an opportunity to go to college.
3. Archaic To scatter.
n.
Extravagant expenditure; prodigality.

[Origin unknown.]

squan′der·er n.
squan′der·ing·ly adv.
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squander

(ˈskwɒndə)
vb (tr)
1. to spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate
2. an obsolete word for scatter
n
rare extravagance or dissipation
[C16: of unknown origin]
ˈsquanderer n
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squan•der

(ˈskwɒn dər)

v.t.
1. to spend or use extravagantly or wastefully.
2. to scatter.
n.
3. extravagant or wasteful expenditure.
[1585–95; orig. uncertain]
squan′der•er, n.
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squander


Past participle: squandered
Gerund: squandering

Imperative
squander
squander
Present
I squander
you squander
he/she/it squanders
we squander
you squander
they squander
Preterite
I squandered
you squandered
he/she/it squandered
we squandered
you squandered
they squandered
Present Continuous
I am squandering
you are squandering
he/she/it is squandering
we are squandering
you are squandering
they are squandering
Present Perfect
I have squandered
you have squandered
he/she/it has squandered
we have squandered
you have squandered
they have squandered
Past Continuous
I was squandering
you were squandering
he/she/it was squandering
we were squandering
you were squandering
they were squandering
Past Perfect
I had squandered
you had squandered
he/she/it had squandered
we had squandered
you had squandered
they had squandered
Future
I will squander
you will squander
he/she/it will squander
we will squander
you will squander
they will squander
Future Perfect
I will have squandered
you will have squandered
he/she/it will have squandered
we will have squandered
you will have squandered
they will have squandered
Future Continuous
I will be squandering
you will be squandering
he/she/it will be squandering
we will be squandering
you will be squandering
they will be squandering
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been squandering
you have been squandering
he/she/it has been squandering
we have been squandering
you have been squandering
they have been squandering
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been squandering
you will have been squandering
he/she/it will have been squandering
we will have been squandering
you will have been squandering
they will have been squandering
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been squandering
you had been squandering
he/she/it had been squandering
we had been squandering
you had been squandering
they had been squandering
Conditional
I would squander
you would squander
he/she/it would squander
we would squander
you would squander
they would squander
Past Conditional
I would have squandered
you would have squandered
he/she/it would have squandered
we would have squandered
you would have squandered
they would have squandered
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.squander - spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
expend, use - use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions"
blow - spend lavishly or wastefully on; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater"
burn - spend (significant amounts of money); "He has money to burn"
2.squander - spend extravagantlysquander - spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, fool, dissipate, shoot - spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"
luxuriate, wanton - become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
lavish, shower - expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise"
overspend - spend at a high rate
expend, spend, drop - pay out; "spend money"
splurge, fling - indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV"
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squander

verb waste, spend, fritter away, blow (slang), consume, scatter, run through, lavish, throw away, misuse, dissipate, expend, misspend, be prodigal with, frivol away, spend like water He had squandered his chances to win.
keep, save, be frugal, be thrifty, store, economize, put aside for a rainy day
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

squander

verb
1. To use up foolishly or needlessly:
2. To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly:
Slang: blow.
noun
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Translations
يُبَدِّدُيُبَذِّر
plýtvatrozházet
klatte væk
tuhlata
potratiti
sóa, eyîa
浪費する
낭비하다
izšķērdētizšķiest
slösa bort
ใช้จ่ายสุรุ่ยสุร่าย
boşa harcamakisraf/çarçur etmek
lãng phí

squander

[ˈskwɒndəʳ] VT [+ money] → derrochar, despilfarrar; [+ opportunity] → desperdiciar; [+ time, resources] → emplear mal
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

squander

[ˈskwɒndər] vt
[+ money] → gaspiller
[+ chances] → gâcher
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

squander

vtverschwenden, vergeuden (→ on an +acc); opportunityvertun
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

squander

[ˈskwɒndəʳ] vt (money) → sperperare, dissipare, scialacquare; (time, opportunity) → sprecare, perdere
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

squander

(ˈskwondə) verb
to waste. He squandered all his money on gambling.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

squander

يُبَدِّدُ plýtvat klatte væk vergeuden χαραμίζω despilfarrar tuhlata dilapider potratiti sperperare 浪費する 낭비하다 verspillen sløse roztrwonić desperdiçar расточать slösa bort ใช้จ่ายสุรุ่ยสุร่าย boşa harcamak lãng phí 浪费
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References in classic literature ?
And of that which is neither yours nor your subjects' you can be a ready giver, as were Cyrus, Caesar, and Alexander; because it does not take away your reputation if you squander that of others, but adds to it; it is only squandering your own that injures you.
You ought to have stopped at your first acts of charity--acts inspired by sympathy and the love of kinsfolk, rather than have continued to squander your means upon what was unnecessary.
'No matter; I should like it better if it were a boy--only that its father will leave it no inheritance that he can possibly squander away.
I squander what is given me, a squanderer with a thousand hands: how could I call that--sacrificing?
It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly."
"Yes, 'tis too true," said Comminges, "'tis almost a prison; but what a singular fancy this is of yours, count -- you, who are the very flower of our nobility -- to squander your valor and loyalty amongst these upstarts, the Frondists!
"I AM going to squander it in a wild soulless revel of some sort," declared Anne gaily.
He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
Every freak of prodigality was indulged to its fullest extent, and in a little while most of the trappers, having squandered away all their wages, and perhaps run knee-deep in debt, were ready for another hard campaign in the wilderness.
We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as `wasted' lives, saving and except when an individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life--which Leslie Moore certainly hasn't done.
The income from it, for the last three-and-twenty years, which should properly have been his, and which the dead man had squandered to the last farthing, was gone beyond recall.
Monks, still bearing that assumed name, retired with his portion to a distant part of the New World; where, having quickly squandered it, he once more fell into his old courses, and, after undergoing a long confinement for some fresh act of fraud and knavery, at length sunk under an attack of his old disorder, and died in prison.