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squanders

squanders is the third-person singular simple present indicative of squander.

Meaning of squander

Verb

squander (third-person singular simple present squanders, present participle squandering, simple past and past participle squandered)

  1. (transitive) To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
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    Synonyms:
    waste, lavish, splurge, slather, throw away, make ducks and drakes of, play ducks and drakes with, blow
    Antonyms:
    conserve, hoard, save
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To scatter; to disperse.
    • […]our ſquander’d Troops he rallies:[…]1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 2
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To wander at random; to scatter.
    • […]The Wiſe-mans folly is anathomiz’d / Euen by ſquandring glances of the foole.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Questions about squanders

What is squanders the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Squanders is the third-person singular simple present indicative of squander.

Words near squanders in the dictionary

  1. squanderings
  2. squanderlust
  3. squandermania
  4. squandermaniac
  5. squandermaniacs
  6. squanders
  7. squandersome
  8. squanter-squash
  9. squanter-squashes
  10. squantersquash
  11. squantersquashes

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