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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."

noun

Squander n. The act of squandering; waste.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Squander" Quotes from Famous Books

... of artifice. Are not men rattling the dice-box and ladies dipping their fingers in the rouge-pot? At Rome, in the keenest time of her degringolade, when there was gambling even in the holy temples, great ladies (does not Lucian tell us?) did not scruple to squander all they had upon unguents from Arabia. Nero's mistress and unhappy wife, Poppaea, of shameful memory, had in her travelling retinue fifteen—or, as some say, fifty—she-asses, for the sake of their milk, that was thought an incomparable guard against cosmetics with poison ...

— The Works of Max Beerbohm • Max Beerbohm

... of having foolishly lost one hundred thousand francs, without an object in view, like a dolt, and without having consulted his wife. Caroline advises her friends not to marry. She complains of the incapacity of men who squander the fortunes of their wives. Caroline is vindictive, she makes herself generally disagreeable. Pity Adolphe! Lament, ye husbands! O bachelors, ...

— Petty Troubles of Married Life, Part First • Honore de Balzac

... promptly the next morning. With Mr. Conner's assistance he pays Marcia's and Gertrude's portion, and reinvests it. They can have the interest or squander the principal. He calls on several tradesmen and takes their receipts. The note is still a matter of perplexity, and Mr. Connery is appointed to confer with the holder and ask him to meet Mr. Floyd Grandon. Then he settles about a strip of land for which he ...

— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... were you, I'd go straight and have the law of him. The money's yours; how dare he squander it? There's ...

— The Power of Darkness • Leo Tolstoy

... managed to keep their heads above water, buoyed up by their dignity as Ranis of an ancient house, in spite of their daily tears being drowned in the foam of wine, and by the tinkle of the "dancing girls" anklets. Was the credit due to me that my husband did not touch liquor, nor squander his manhood in the markets of woman's flesh? What charm did I know to soothe the wild and wandering mind of men? It was my good luck, nothing else. For fate proved utterly callous to my sister-in-law. Her festivity died out, while yet the ...

— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore

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