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verb

Squander v. t. (past & past part. squandered; pres. part. squandering)

To scatter; to disperse. (Obs.) "Our squandered troops he rallies."

To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate. "The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly."

Synonyms: To spend; expend; waste; scatter; dissipate.

Squander v. i.

To spend lavishly; to be wasteful. "They often squandered, but they never gave."

To wander at random; to scatter. (R.) "The wise man's folly is anatomized Even by squandering glances of the fool."

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Etymology of 'Squandered'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Squandered" Quotes from Famous Books

... gets out of a tip consists in the mere fact of having something to squander. Squandering is in itself delightful, and so I found it with my life in my younger days. I do not squander it now, but I am not sorry that I have squandered a good deal of it. What a heap of rubbish there would have been if I had not! Had I not better set about squandering what ...

— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler

... with these few men, and the few table-cloths and beads that remained to him from the store squandered by the imbecile Sherif? This was a puzzling question. Had Dr. Livingstone been in good health, his usual hardihood and indomitable spirit had answered it in a summary way. He might have borrowed some cloth from Sayd bin Majid at an exorbitant price, sufficient ...

— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley

... dismay caused by the sense of her own position, for, as she seemed to weaken before him, the strength of his own habit of dominance came back to him. "Charity, madam!" he broke out, shouting intolerably. "Charity, d'ye hear? I was a friend of the man that made the money you and your grandfather squandered; I was a friend of Jonas Tabor, I say! That's why I was willing to support you for a year and over, rather than let a niece of ...

— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington

... mine have never wandered, Still may they gleam with long forgotten light. Since in no wanton way my youth was squandered, Some sense of youth still clings ...

— Last Poems • Laurence Hope

... draperies, like a cloud of whirling snow-flakes drifting across the silence of the desert night. She was the one woman in all the world for him, though his blind eyes had faced the light for years and had not known it. He had squandered the strength of his youth in the pursuit of a little wax light, and had not marked the serene shining ...

— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning

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