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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | waste away |
| Synonyms: | be wasteful with, blow*, cast away, consume, dally, diddle away, dissipate, frivol, go through*, idle, lavish, misspend, run through, spend like water, squander, throw away, trifle |
| Antonyms: | hold, save, store |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lavish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pamper, shower |
| Synonyms: | be generous, be wasteful, deluge, dissipate, expend, fritter, give, go through, heap, pour, run through, scatter, spend, spend money like water, squander, thrust upon, waste |
| Antonyms: | economize, hoard, limit, starve |
| Main Entry: | putter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dawdle |
| Synonyms: | doodle, fiddle, fritter, goof around, loiter, mess, mess around, niggle, poke*, potter, puddle, shuffle around, tinker |
| Antonyms: | execute |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give, pay out |
| Synonyms: | absorb, allocate, ante up, apply, bestow, blow*, cast away, come across, come through, concentrate, confer, consume, contribute, cough up, defray, deplete, disburse, dispense, dissipate, donate, drain, drop, employ, empty, evote, exhaust, expend, foot the bill, fritter, give, hand out, invest, lavish, lay out, liquidate, misspend, outlay, pay down, pay up, put in, run through, settle, shell out, spring for, squander, throw away, use, use up, waste |
| Antonyms: | earn, get, receive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use time; occupy |
| Synonyms: | consume, devote, drift, employ, fill, fool around, fritter, go, idle, kill, laze, let pass, misuse, pass, put in, squander, waste, while away |
| Antonyms: | be lazy |
| Main Entry: | throw away |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | waste |
| Synonyms: | be wasteful, blow, consume, dissipate, fail to exploit, fritter, lose, refuse, reject, squander, trifle, turn down |
| Antonyms: | hoard, save |
| Main Entry: | trifle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | toy with; mess around |
| Synonyms: | amuse oneself, be insincere, coquet, dabble, dally, dawdle, dilly-dally, doodle, fidget, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with, fribble, fritter, futz around, horse around, idle, indulge in, lead on, loiter, lollygag, lounge, mess with, misuse, monkey, monkey with, palter, philander, play, play games with, play with, potter, putter, squander, string along, toy, twiddle, use up, wanton, waste, waste time, wink at |
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spending, use without thought |
| Synonyms: | decay, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, dissipation, disuse, exhaustion, expenditure, extravagance, fritter, havoc, improvidence, lavishness, loss, lost opportunity, misapplication, misuse, overdoing, prodigality, ravage, ruin, squander, squandering, unthriftiness, wastage, wastefulness |
| Notes: | wastage is loss through use such as wear, leakage, or decay; the gradual process of wasting; or an amount that is wasted -- while waste is loss through carelessness, inefficiency, or ignorance or another word for garbage or rubbish |
| Antonyms: | hoarding, saving |
| Main Entry: | dillydally |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dawdle |
| Synonyms: | dally, delay, fritter, idle, lag, linger, loaf, loiter, stall, trifle, vacillate |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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