单词 | squander |
释义 | squan·der I. transitive verb 1. < they drive and squander the huge Belgian fleet — John Dryden > 2. < tied up their fortunes in trust funds so that they could not be squandered by their heirs — Lucien Price > < willing to squander their lives on the gratuitous work that great art demands — Edmund Wilson > < the most brilliant journalist of my generation … often squanders his genius for invective — T.S.Eliot > < squandering away income by gambling — Bingham Dai > intransitive verb 1. 2. < they often squandered, but they never gave — Richard Savage > 3. < many of the enemy … squandered like quail from a flushed covey — B.A.Williams > Synonyms: see waste II. |
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