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squander

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1. squander - Noun

2. squander - Verb

Meaning

To scatter; to disperse.

To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.

To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.

To wander at random; to scatter.

The act of squandering; waste.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. Don DeLillo

No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers. Herbert Hoover

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it. Christine Gregoire

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. Oscar Wilde

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it. André Gide

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