squander

There wasn’t any celebrating to be had by the Ravens at the end of the game, however, after they squandered a 40-25 lead in the final four minutes.

They consume food or alcohol obsessively, touch people inappropriately or squander the family’s savings on weird purchases.

"We are helping the agency earn back the trust it has squandered."

The main opposition party, the PNP, accused the government of squandering money, citing the high cost of second-hand school buses it had purchased.

His movies are almost always about characters at risk of squandering their potential, be they ballerinas, wrestlers, mathematicians or baseball players.