squanderedadj.
1. Dispersed; scattered.
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the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [adjective] > spread or diffused
diffusec1475
diffused?1570
spread1585
distended1595
squandered1647
disseminated1662
smeared out1931
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [adjective] > driven away in all directions
scattereda1425
forscattered1430
sparpled1432
skailed1488
dispersed1526
disparkled1529
severed1581
flittered1582
sparsed1585
discattered1595
disjected1647
squandered1647
dissipateda1711
dissipate1715
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > incohesive > relating to disintegration > disintegrated
squandered1647
disintegrated1794
disintegrate1875
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 20 This once select nation of God..is become now a scorned squandered people all the earth over.
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 2 Upon the skirts Of Arragon, our squander'd Troops he rallies.
1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 18 'Tis necessary that these squander'd Atoms should convene and unite.
1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 2) 118 Beckoning hints..That guide the squander'd covey home.
1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 236 Six men were a quarter of a mile to the good of their squandered field.
2. Spent profusely or extravagantly.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective] > characterized or marked by squandering > squandered
dissipated1738
dissipate1765
squandered1801
1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. i. 44 What was to him the squandered wealth?
1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude x. 195 He sees what he might have done with the squandered resources.
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