n.
Function: verb
1
Synonyms: RAVAGE , depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, pillage, sack, spoliate
Idioms: reduce to a shambles
Antonyms: conserve
2 to spend or expend freely and usually foolishly or futilely FF1C; wasted his inheritance on women and gambling FF1E; FF1C; waste one's time on trifles FF1E;
Synonyms: blow, blunder (away), cast away, consume, dissipate, dribble (away), drivel, fool (away), fritter, frivol away, muddle (away), ||piss away, potter (away), prodigalize, riot (away), squander, throw away, trifle (away)
Related Words: disburse, expend, spend; dispense, distribute; deplete, drain, exhaust, impoverish; dispel, disperse, scatter; misspend
Idioms: let slip through one's fingers, pour down the drain, throw good money after bad
Antonyms: save; conserve