Squander

Verb

 * 1) To waste, lavish, splurge

Synonyms

 * waste, splurge
 * ducks and drakes
 * throw away

Thesaurus
ablate, absorb, assimilate, bleed white, blow, budget, burn up, consume, cost, cost out, decrease, deplete, depreciate, digest, disburse, dissipate, drain, drain of resources, dribble away, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, extravagancy, finish, finish off, fool away, fork out, fritter, gamble away, go through, gobble, gobble up, hang the expense, impoverish, incur costs, ingest, invest, lavish, lavishness, lay out, open the purse, outlay, overdoing, pay, pay out, prodigality, put out, run through, scatter, schedule, seize the day, shell out, shrink, sink money in, slather, sow broadcast, spend, splurge, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, throw, throw away, throw money around, use up, waste, waste away, wastefulness, wear, wear away

Etymology
Cf. Danish skvætte:(rare)/skvatte: (nominalised: skvæt:), Icelandic skvetta:, Norwegian bokmål skvette:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:, verkwanselen, verbrassen
 * Finnish:, , törsätä
 * French: ,


 * German:, ,  verprassen
 * Polish: marnować/zmarnować, marnotrawić/zmarnotrawić
 * Russian: проматывать,, растрачивать
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili: