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▪ I. ˈsquandering, vbl. n.
[f. as prec.]
The action of spending lavishly or prodigally. Also with away.
1632Sherwood, A squandering, bobance, bobans. 1677Miége Fr. Dict. ii. s.v., A Squandering away. 1721Bailey, Profuseness, a..lavishness or squandering of Money. 1753Scots Mag. XV. 79/1 Our granting of a subsidy..would be worse than squandering. 1817–8Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 228 This squandering causes heavy taxes. 1859Holland Gold Foil xxvi. 316 The squandering of precious means by organized bands of sane business men.
transf. and fig.1763D. Arnot in Life M. Bruce (1914) vii. 100 Nothing is more shameful than the squandering away of time. 1839–40W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost (1855) 65 He had experienced..its dissipation of the spirits, and squanderings of the heart.
▪ II. ˈsquandering, ppl. a.
[f. as prec.]
1. a. Of persons: Given to squander; spending lavishly or extravagantly.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxx. 134 My wife..Shall not ywis be bused by the squandring Pollo so. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. i. §5. 42 Transcendental relations of Action... Squandring, lavish, profuse. 1708King Cookery Wks. 1776 III. 78 Squandering of wealth, impatient of advice. 1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 53 All was certain;..the oaks [had not] to tremble at the axe of the squandering heir.
b. Of conduct, etc.: Characterized by extravagant expenditure.
1726Bolingbroke Study Hist. viii. Wks. 1754 II. 472 The reign of false and squandering policy..will finally compleat our ruin. 1849Craig, Squanderingly, in a squandering manner.
2. Straying, straggling; spreading abroad. Now dial.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 57 The Wise-mans folly is anathomiz'd Euen by the squandring glances of the foole. 1854–in dial. glossaries (Nhp., Leics., Rutland). 1866N. & Q. 3rd Ser. X. 27 It's a squandering farm; a field here and a field there; it don't lie together. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. 140 It's a very squandering place.
Hence ˈsquanderingly adv.
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