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Definition: Squandered |
SquanderedAdjective1. Not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "squandered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: SquanderedSynonym: wasted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Squandered |
| Specialty definitions using "squandered": BABE ♦ Cider. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "squandered": Squander. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hemingway was an abusive alcoholic who squandered his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers. (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) He was an abusive, alcoholic misogynist who squandered half of his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers. (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) My dad said he squandered the family fortune. (Thir13en Ghosts; writing credit: Neal Stevens) Merciful Father, I have squandered my days with plans of many things. (The 13th Warrior; writing credit: William Wisher Jr.) | |
Lyrics | I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, (The Boxer; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) | |
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Economic History | Nigeria | Profitable niche markets outside the energy sector, like specialized telecommunication providers, have developed under the government's reform program, and there is a Nigerian consensus that foreign investment is essential to realizing Nigeria's vast but squandered potential. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BABE or :BABY:, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf. Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be 'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. Ro Amil |
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George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | After generations of deceitful dictators and broken treaties and squandered lives, we dedicated ourselves to standards of human dignity shared by all, and to a system of security defended by all. |
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| "Squandered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 49.11% of the time. "Squandered" is used about 112 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 49.11% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 45.54% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.36% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 112 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "squandered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | مبدد (dissipated, lavished, wasted). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 侈" (squander, squandering). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | gaspillai, gaspillées, gaspillée, gaspilla. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | verschwendete (dissipated, lavished, wasted, wastes), verschleuderten, verschleuderte. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hebrew | מבוזבז (wasted). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | jummalit (wasted). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | anderedsquay malgastado, derrochado. (various references) | ||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "squandered" (pronounced skwÄ"nderd) |
| 6 | -w Ä" n d er d | wandered. |
| 5 | -Ä" n d er d | pondered. |
| 4 | -n d er d | blundered, engendered, floundered, foundered, gerrymandered, hindered, laundered, meandered, nonstandard, pandered, plundered, rendered, slandered, standard, substandard, surrendered, tendered, thundered, unhindered, wondered. |
| 3 | -d er d | bewildered, bordered, considered, disordered, embroidered, murdered, ordered, powdered, reconsidered, shouldered, shuddered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-n-q-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: daunders, denuders, squander, sundered, undersea, unerased, unseared. | |
-3 letters: asunder, danders, danseur, daunder, deadens, denuder, denudes, dudeens, duendes, endears, endured, endures, ensured, quaeres, reddens, squared. | |
-4 letters: adders, aeneus, dander, darned, deaden, deader, deaned, dedans, denars, denser, denude, desand, dreads, dudeen, duende, durned, earned, endear, enders, endued, endues, endure, ensued, ensure, enured, enures, erased, neared. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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