fritter

A two-under 34 on the front nine failed to do that and when McIlroy frittered away two shots on the 10th, it was clear the championship was beyond his reach.

Sam Burns and Adam Scott had frittered away their overnight advantage.

Their extensive donut menu has 30 variations, including chocolate wildberry fritter, salt and vinegar, red velvet cake and orange dream star.

Just ask Henry David Thoreau, who was lamenting in 1854 that our lives are being “frittered away by detail.”

And here’s the thing: It’s easy to fritter away our power, but it would be a decades-long struggle to regain influence once it’s gone.