Associations to the word «Squandered»

Wiktionary

SQUANDER, verb. To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
SQUANDER, verb. (obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
SQUANDER, verb. (obsolete) To wander at random; to scatter.

Dictionary definition

SQUANDER, verb. Spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree".
SQUANDER, verb. Spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne