To waste by scattering, squandering, or misusing; to employ or expend wastefully. Obsolete.

transitive. To dissipate, squander (goods or possessions). Obsolete or archaic.

To spill, waste, render useless.

transitive. To scrape away; (figurative) to destroy. Cf. rasp, v.1

In unfavourable sense: To spend, consume, employ uselessly or without adequate result. (Now the most… To consume, expend, bestow (money, property)…

To consume, employ, use superfluously, wastefully, or with undue lavishness; to waste or squander; to throw away.

transitive. To spend (money), esp. wastefully; to squander (goods).

In unfavourable sense: To spend, consume, employ uselessly or without adequate result. (Now the most prominent use.) with away. Obsolete.

transitive. To pervert, subvert (something); to misuse, misapply.

transitive. To waste, consume.

To throw away, i.e. in waste or loss; to spend uselessly, waste wantonly, squander, ruin.

transitive. To spend or use without adequate return; to squander, waste.

To impair or diminish by waste or extravagance; to squander, dissipate (property, etc.).

To spend (money, goods, etc.) recklessly, prodigally, or lavishly; to expend extravagantly, profusely, or wastefully. Also const. on.

transitive. To trifle away; to squander. Obsolete.

transitive. To expend, give, or produce freely or copiously; to pour forth; to lavish, squander.

With away.

transitive. With out. To spoil, waste, or destroy (a thing), as by pulling a fabric into threads. Obsolete.

transitive. With away. To remove or waste idly or recklessly; to squander. Now rare.

transitive. To waste or squander (something valuable) in foolish or idle pursuits; esp. to fritter away (one’s time or money).

to stream out: to exhaust by unrestricted flow. Also figurative.

transitive. to fribble away: to throw away or part with lightly, fool away. to fribble out (nonce-use): to portray with purposeless minuteness.

transitive. To cause to waste away like a guttering candle. Chiefly figurative.

transitive. To move (up, out, about, etc.) in a sportive or lively manner.

trans. to fiddle away: to fritter away.

transitive. To fritter (something) away; to squander. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To waste or squander (something), esp. by scattering or spilling it; to fritter or throw away; to spill, slop, smear (cf. slather, v. 2).

= swatter, v. 2.

transitive. With away or (occasionally) out. To fritter away or waste (something, esp. time) in a foolish or silly way.

To fritter away (as time, money).

transitive. to muddle away: to spend (money, time, etc.) without purpose or result; to fritter away.

To spend profusely, without securing adequate return; to use in a wasteful manner.

transitive. With away. To waste or squander by sottish conduct.

transitive. To fritter or throw away (time, opportunity, etc.) by carelessness or slovenliness; to squander or waste (something). Obsolete.

transitive. To fritter away. Also intransitive: to disappear gradually.

With away, down: To do away with piecemeal; to attenuate, wear down, whittle away; to spend (energy, time) on trifles, to waste.

transitive. To spend or use extravagantly, to waste.

transitive. Chiefly Irish English. To squander or fritter away (money, income). Now rare.

Phrases. to cut to waste: lit. to cut (cloth) in a wasteful manner; figurative (? slang) to apportion (time) wastefully.

To fritter or trifle away. rare.

transitive. To trifle away; to spend, waste, or lose in or by pottering.

transitive. = potter, v. 4d. Frequently with away.

transitive. To waste by reckless use or expenditure. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. to piddle away: to waste, squander (time, money, etc.); to fritter away.

transitive. To dissipate or expend (something, esp. money) in large amounts, as if by allowing it to drain away.

transitive. To squander or waste (money, time, an opportunity, etc.).