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Definition: Squandering |
SquanderingNoun1. Spending resources lavishly and wastefully; "more wasteful than the squandering of time". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "squandering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Loss | Privation, bereavement; deprivation; (dispossession); riddance; damage, squandering, waste. |
Prodigality | Noun: prodigality, prodigence; unthriftiness, waste; profusion, profuseness; extravagance; squandering; Verb: malversation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Squandering |
| English words defined with "squandering": heedless ♦ reckless ♦ Squanderingly, squandermania. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "squandering": Fight ♦ Lake. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "squandering": Squander. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
John Mason Brown | The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Vainglory is a squandering. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His mother had no further occasion to upbraid him for squandering his money. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | But the squandering of the public money sinks into comparative insignificance as a temptation to corruption when compared with the squandering of the public lands. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Squandering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 72.22% of the time. "Squandering" is used about 36 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 (-ing form) | 72.22% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "squandering": self-squandering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "squandering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | harxhim (consumption, expenditure, expense, intake, squander, wastage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هدر (boom, brawl, growl, plash, roar, thud, thunder, waste, yell), تبذير (dissipation, extravagance, frittering away, improvidence, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, throwing away, wastefulness, wasting), تبديد (dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, removal, scattering, waste), إسراف (exaggeration, excess, flamboyance, flamboyancy, improvidence, intemperance, luxury, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, redundance, redundancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | прахосване (dissipation, wastage, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 侈" (squander, squandered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | haaskaus (waste, wasting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gaspillage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zersplitterung (dissipation, fragmentation, shattering, splittering), vergeudung (misdirection, wasting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διασπάθιση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פזר ות (extravagance, munificence, prodigality, profligacy), "תבזבזות (waste), בזבוז (dissipation, wastage, waste), בזבז ות (extravagance, improvidence, prodigality, wastefulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pazarló (lavish, lavisher, lavishing, prodigal, spendthrift, squanderer, thriftless, to go the pace, unsparing, unthrifty, wasteful, waster, wasting, wastrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 蕩尽 (dissipation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | とうじ" (a Chinese, a party man, dissipation, foreigner, islanders, minute investigation, squander, sword blade, thorough inquiry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jummalys (extravagance, extravagant, improvidence, improvident, lavishing, prodigal, prodigality, spendthrift, squanderer, thriftless, wastage, waste, wasteful, wastefulness, waster, wasting, wastrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anderingsquay risipã (dissipation, extravagance, gash, improvidence, prodigality, squander, waste). (various references) мотовство (prodigality). (various references) traćenje (waste), rasipanje (dissipation, wastage, waste, wasting). (various references) despilfarro (extravagance, waste, wastefulness), despilfarrando, desperdicio (garbage, leak, spoilage, waste). (various references) slösande (extravagant, improvident, lavish, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, uneconomical, waste, wasteful), slösaktig (extravagant, improvident, lavish, profligate, spendthrift, uneconomical, wasteful). (various references) savurganlık (extravagance, lavishness, prodigality, profusion, splurge, thriftlessness, wastefulness), israf (dissipation, extravagance, improvidence, prodigality, profusion, squander, wastage, waste, wastefulness). (various references) phung phí, hoang to ng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dissipatione, dissipationem, dissipationes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "squandering" (pronounced skwÄ"ndering) |
| 7 | -w Ä" n d er i ng | wandering. |
| 6 | -Ä" n d er i ng | pondering. |
| 5 | -n d er i ng | blundering, floundering, foundering, gerrymandering, hindering, laundering, maundering, meandering, pandering, philandering, plundering, rendering, surrendering, tendering, thundering, wondering. |
| 4 | -d er i ng | bewildering, bordering, considering, doddering, embroidering, murdering, ordering, powdering, reconsidering, reordering, shouldering, shuddering, smoldering, soldering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bickering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, outnumbering, pampering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, posturing, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, reoffering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, showering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-n-q-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: sundering. | |
-3 letters: aginners, aneurins, darnings, denarius, deraigns, dunnages, earnings, enduring, engrains, ensuring, gradines, grannies, guanines, insnared, queridas, readings, sanguine, squander, squaring, undaring, unraised, unrinsed, unsigned, uranides. | |
-4 letters: aginner, aneurin, anguine, asunder, audings, augends, dangers, danseur, darings, darning, deaning, deraign, desugar, dingers, dinners, duennas, dungier, dunnage, durians, durning, earings, earning, endings, endrins, enduing, engirds. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-n-q-r-s-u" | |
+4 letters: grandiloquences. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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