transitive. To spend completely. To exhaust (money or property).

transitive. To dissipate, squander (goods or possessions). Obsolete or archaic.

To spend to no purpose; to waste, squander.

In unfavourable sense: To spend, consume, employ uselessly or without adequate result. (Now the most… To consume, expend, bestow (money, property)…

transitive. To spend badly, wastefully, or inappropriately; to make a bad, useless, or wasteful expenditure of.

transitive. To waste or spill; to spend foolishly.

transitive. To spend (money), esp. wastefully; to squander (goods).

In unfavourable sense: To spend, consume, employ uselessly or without adequate result. (Now the most prominent use.) with away. Obsolete.

transitive. To spend (money) lavishly. Also (literal): to pour out.

To lavish, squander. Chiefly with out. Obsolete.

transitive. To squander.

transitive. To bestow, deal out, distribute, or spend profusely and recklessly; also with away, out… with material object. Also, to shed (blood) in…

transitive. To lose in gambling. Also, more generally: to waste, squander, throw away recklessly. Cf. sense 16. Now rare.

transitive. With away, †out. To waste or squander by living in an extravagant or dissolute fashion; (also) to pass (a period of time) in a wasteful…

To impair or diminish by waste or extravagance; to squander, dissipate (property, etc.).

figurative. To waste, squander (a benefice or estate).

To spend (money, goods, etc.) recklessly, prodigally, or lavishly; to expend extravagantly, profusely, or wastefully. Also const. on.

To waste, consume, spend. Obsolete.

figurative. In phrases: to make ducks and drakes ofor with, to play (at) duck and drake with: to throw away idly or carelessly; to play idly with…

transitive. To give or spend wastefully or extravagantly; to squander; to lavish.

transitive. To expend, give, or produce freely or copiously; to pour forth; to lavish, squander.

With away.

intransitive. To trifle; to deal or behave in a petty, trifling way. Also transitive: to squander, trifle away. Cf. peddle, v.2, piddle, v. 1. Obs…

transitive. To make away with or consume (drink), waste or squander (one's money). Obsolete or dialect.

intransitive. Originally: to run through or squander (one's estate, fortune, money, etc.). Later usually without implication of profligacy or…

transitive. To squander or waste (money, etc.). Cf. to piss (money, an opportunity, etc.) against the wall at phrases 1.

transitive. To give or spend wastefully or extravagantly; to squander; to lavish.

figurative. To diminish, consume, waste. Obsolete.

to bangle (away): to fritter away, squander.

To dissipate, spend prodigally, squander.

To spend prodigally; to squander; = debauch, v. 5.

transitive. to fribble away: to throw away or part with lightly, fool away. to fribble out (nonce-use): to portray with purposeless minuteness.

transitive. To lose or give up (something valuable) through foolishness or recklessness; to squander. Cf. to fool away at phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete.

transitive. To go through, spend, squander (money, assets, etc.). Obsolete.

trans. to fiddle away: to fritter away.

transitive. To waste or squander (something), esp. by scattering or spilling it; to fritter or throw away; to spill, slop, smear (cf. slather, v. 2).

transitive. To scatter or consume wastefully (money, resources, faculties); to waste, squander.

transitive. = to play away at phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete.

(transitive) to make ‘ducks and drakes’ of; to throw away idly.

figurative. To dissipate, waste.

transitive. To cause to scatter or disperse; to drive in different directions. Also sparkle away (quot. 1703).

transitive. To spend or use extravagantly, to waste.

To squander foolishly, ‘fool away.’ rare.

intransitive. To behave frivolously, to trifle. Also, to frivol away (money, time): to spend foolishly.

figurative. In phrases: to make ducks and drakes ofor with, to play (at) duck and drake with: to throw away idly or carelessly; to play idly with…

Used in many phrases and idiomatic expressions merely as a variant (more emphatic or expressive of greater violence) of throw or cast (see esp. cast…

transitive. To live (one's life, etc.) badly; to misspend.

transitive. To spill or slop; to scatter. Also, to use in large quantities; to squander; to paste, spread, or smear liberally. Usually with adverbs.

transitive. To fritter away.

transitive. To waste by reckless use or expenditure. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. U.S. To finish off, to exhaust; to cause or allow to peter out; to fritter, squander. With out, away.

transitive. To squander or waste (money, time, an opportunity, etc.).