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Squander

//ˈskwɑn.dɚ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate. transitive

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  2. 2
    spend extravagantly wordnet
  3. 3
    To scatter; to disperse. obsolete, transitive

    "[…]our ſquander’d Troops he rallies:[…]"

  4. 4
    spend thoughtlessly; throw away wordnet
  5. 5
    To wander at random; to scatter. obsolete, transitive

    "[…]The Wiſe-mans folly is anathomiz’d / Euen by ſquandring glances of the foole."

Etymology

Earliest uses (late 16th c.) "to spend recklessly or prodigiously", also "to scatter over a wide area". Of unknown origin. Perhaps a blend of scatter + wander. Compare Danish skvætte (rare)/skvatte (“to splash”) (nominalised: skvæt), Icelandic skvetta (“to squirt”), Swedish skvätta (“to splash”), Norwegian Bokmål skvette.

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