fiddle away
verb
fiddled away; fiddling away; fiddles away
transitive verb
: to fritter away
fiddling away the time
Synonyms
- blow
- dissipate
- fritter (away)
- lavish
- lose
- misspend
- run through
- spend
- squander
- throw away
- trifle (away)
- waste
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Example Sentences
fiddled away the entire evening surfing the Internet
Word History
First Known Use
1667, in the meaning defined above
fiddles away
verb
as in spends
to use up carelessly fiddled away the entire evening surfing the Internet Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- spends
- throws away
- runs through
- wastes
- loses
- plays ducks and drakes with
- misspends
- fritters (away)
- trifles (away)
- makes ducks and drakes of
- lavishes
- squanders
- blows
- dissipates
- lays out
- splurges
- exhausts
- consumes
- depletes
- overindulges
- overspends
- impoverishes
- indulges
- disburses
- shoots
- expends
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- protects
- conserves
- preserves
- saves
- economizes
- skimps
- lays up
- hoards
- scrimps