squander

verbB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

squanders

V_ing/Gerund

squandering

V_ed/pp

squandered

1.
(transitive)To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
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1886, Cora Pearl, Memoirs. "I have squandered money enormously.... I ought to have saved, but saving is not easy in such a whirl of excitement as that in which I have lived."
1746, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
Đồng nghĩa: waste, lavish, splurge, slather, throw away, make ducks and drakes of, play ducks and drakes with, blow
2.
(obsolete, transitive)To scatter; to disperse.
3.
(obsolete, transitive)To wander at random; to scatter.

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Đồng nghĩa

waste lavish splurge slatherthrow awaymake ducks and drakes ofplay ducks and drakes withblow

Trái nghĩa

conservehoard save

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

Earliest uses (late 16th c.) "to spend recklessly or prodigiously", also "to scatter over a wide area". Of. Perhaps a scatter wander.