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squandering

 
Noun squandering has 1 sense
  1. squandering - spending resources lavishly and wastefully; "more wasteful than the squandering of time"
    --1 is a kind of
    waste, wastefulness, dissipation
    --1 has particulars: squandermania
    Derived form: verb squander2
Verb squander has 2 senses
  1. waste, blow, squander - spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
    --1 is one way to use, expend
    Derived form: noun squanderer1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. consume, squander, waste, ware - spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
    --2 is one way to spend, expend, drop
    Derived forms: noun squanderer1, noun squandering1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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