Noun: squandering skwón-du-ring
- Spending resources lavishly and wastefully
"more wasteful than the squandering of time"
- Spend thoughtlessly; throw away
"You squandered the opportunity to get an advanced degree";
- waste, blow [informal]
- Spend extravagantly
"squander not, want not";
- consume, waste, ware [archaic]
Derived forms: squanderings
Type of: consume, deplete, dissipation, drop, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, spend, use, use up, waste, wastefulness, wipe out
Antonym: conserve
Encyclopedia: Squander