0 present participle of squander
1 to waste money or supplies, or to waste opportunities by not using them to your advantage:
His mind was exerted to the utmost at every moment, squandering all his energy.
It is precisely such a squandering of self-mastery, honor, reputation, and wealth that the wine poem depicts for its aesthetic purposes.
Meanwhile, he lived ' an idle and profligate life never working at his business ', and squandering away their money.
They were packed with taverns and liquor stores that invited drinking and gambling and the squandering of wages.
We change for the sake of change, obliterating what was there before, often without finding out what or why it was, and squandering the planet's resources along the way.
She objected when he took to squandering the money that he received, returning home once he had run out of cash to be re-supplied by her.
We find incisive views on social phenomena, such as criticism of reckless youth squandering a fortune, the seamy side of the city's nightlife or social inequality.
The councillor would be surcharged for seemingly squandering that money.
