| 单词 | to muddle away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto muddle away 9. transitive. to muddle away: to spend (money, time, etc.) without purpose or result; to fritter away. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste spilla1000 scatter1154 aspilla1250 rospa1325 waste1340 spend1390 consumec1425 waste1474 miswenda1500 forsumea1510 to cast away1530 to throw away1561 embezzle1578 squander1593 palter1595 profuse1611 squander1611 ravel1614 sport1622 to fool away1628 to stream out1628 to fribble away1633 sweal1655 frisk1665 to fiddle away1667 wantonize1673 slattera1681 swattle1681 drivel1686 swatter1690 to muddle away1707 squander1717 sot1746 slattern1747 meisle1808 fritter1820 waster1821 slobber1837 to cut to waste1863 fringe1863 potter1883 putter1911 profligate1938 to piddle away1942 haemorrhage1978 spaff2002 1707 C. Cibber Double Gallant III. 28 Prodigious! how some Women can muddle away their Money upon Houswifry. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Dec. (1941) 149 I muddled away the evening over my Sheriff-Court processes. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. ii. v. 114 The elder son..had muddled and sotted away much of his share in the Leslie property. 1875 L. Stephen Let. 29 Apr. in N. Annan Leslie Stephen (1984) ii. 74 You throw away your money so recklessly that you don't in the least know how much you have spent nor on what you have spent it. It is simply muddled away. 1912 E. Martyn Grangecolman III. 40 A wealthy and steady man..would have prevented you from muddling away your life. 1992 Economist 21 Nov. 37/1 No sooner was the franchise extended than they muddled away the great Empire, the inheritance which rugged centuries had gathered together for them. < as lemmas |
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