| 单词 | squander |
| 释义 | squander (once / 1592 pages) v To squander means to spend extravagantly, thoughtlessly, or wastefully. If you need to save for college, don't squander your income on nightly sushi dinners. Squander used to mean scatter, and the way we use it now implies throwing something (like money) all over the place. You can squander time as well as money. If you have a big deadline but you are chatting away or looking at social networking sites, you are squandering your time. If you have a big chance to play for a major league baseball team, but show up to the tryouts hung over, you have squandered your chance. WORD FAMILYsquander: squandered, squanderer, squandering, squanders+/squanderer: squanderers/squandering: squanderings USAGE EXAMPLES"With such a strategy, fintechs squander the trust that banks established over years," he said. Reuters(Dec 28, 2016) Reynolds later married an older businessman named Harry Karl, who squandered his wife’s money before they ended up in divorce court. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) In retrospect, what will probably hurt most about this season was the team’s squandering. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) 1v spend thoughtlessly; throw away You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper blow, waste blow spend lavishly or wastefully on conserve, economise, economize, husband use cautiously and frugally burn spend (significant amounts of money) expend, use use up, consume fully 2v spend extravagantly Syn|Hypo|Hyper consume, ware, waste dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot spend frivolously and unwisely luxuriate, wantonbecome extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously lavish, showerexpend profusely; also used with abstract nouns overspendspend at a high rate fling, splurgeindulge oneself drop, expend, spend pay out |
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