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synonyms for squander

  • blow
  • expend
  • lavish
  • misuse
  • waste
  • consume
  • dissipate
  • frivol
  • misspend
  • scatter
  • spend
  • trifle
  • be prodigal with
  • be wasteful
  • cash out
  • frivol away
  • go through
  • prodigalize
  • put out
  • run through
  • spend like water
  • spring for
  • throw away
  • throw money around
See also synonyms for: squandered / squanderer / squandering
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antonyms for squander

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  • hoard
  • save
  • accumulate
  • collect
  • gather
  • set aside
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How to use squander in a sentence

Arbitrary so far as doing the right thing as trustee went, not suffering me, or any one else, to squander a shilling.
JOHNNY LUDLOW, FOURTH SERIESMRS. HENRY WOOD
But a belligerent should not squander on diversions strength which might be employed in the main conflict.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNT
Then he pointed to the beautifully worked manta, “Did she squander wealth of hers on that?”
THE TREASURE TRAILMARAH ELLIS RYAN
Time is a divine inheritance that no man has a right to squander.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRANK G. ALLEN, MINISTER OF THE GOSPELFRANK G. ALLEN
He is not content to squander his immense wealth in race-horses and champagne.
AMERICAN SKETCHESCHARLES WHIBLEY
They do not love us; the more fools we to squander life on the indifferent.
THE POCKET R.L.S.ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
What was it Margaret had once said about his being unlikely to squander Pauline for a young man's experience?
PLASHERS MEADCOMPTON MACKENZIE
But, having done so, she was entitled to squander her thousands without remorse,—and she squandered them.
THE PRIME MINISTERANTHONY TROLLOPE
What she coveted was cash—cash to squander upon her pleasures, cash to pay her huge debts, cash to stimulate her lovers.
COURT BEAUTIES OF OLD WHITEHALLW. R. H. TROWBRIDGE
A man too full of the gravity of life to squander his substance in mere sensuality.
ISLAM HER MORAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUEARTHUR GLYN LEONARD
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO SQUANDER

  • dissipate
  • exhaust
  • misemploy
  • mishandle
  • misuse
  • overburden
  • overtax
  • overwork
  • prostitute
  • spoil
  • squander
  • taint
  • waste
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.