Meaning of "squander" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SQUANDER

Of unknown origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SQUANDER

squander  [ˈskwɒndə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SQUANDER

Squander is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb squander in English.

WHAT DOES SQUANDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Squander

Squander is an Avalon Hill board game published in 1965. It is based loosely on the game Monopoly, but in reverse. As in Monopoly, players roll dice and move around a board, encountering opportunities to make financial decisions. The object, however, is to lose money rather than gain it. Each player starts with a million "Squanderbucks" and the winner is the first player to become bankrupt.

Definition of squander in the English dictionary

The definition of squander in the dictionary is to spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. Other definition of squander is extravagance or dissipation.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SQUANDER

PRESENT

Present

I squander

you squander

he/she/it squanders

we squander

you squander

they squander

Present continuous

I am squandering

you are squandering

he/she/it is squandering

we are squandering

you are squandering

they are squandering

Present perfect

I have squandered

you have squandered

he/she/it has squandered

we have squandered

you have squandered

they have squandered

Present perfect continuous

I have been squandering

you have been squandering

he/she/it has been squandering

we have been squandering

you have been squandering

they have been squandering

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I squandered

you squandered

he/she/it squandered

we squandered

you squandered

they squandered

Past continuous

I was squandering

you were squandering

he/she/it was squandering

we were squandering

you were squandering

they were squandering

Past perfect

I had squandered

you had squandered

he/she/it had squandered

we had squandered

you had squandered

they had squandered

Past perfect continuous

I had been squandering

you had been squandering

he/she/it had been squandering

we had been squandering

you had been squandering

they had been squandering

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will squander

you will squander

he/she/it will squander

we will squander

you will squander

they will squander

Future continuous

I will be squandering

you will be squandering

he/she/it will be squandering

we will be squandering

you will be squandering

they will be squandering

Future perfect

I will have squandered

you will have squandered

he/she/it will have squandered

we will have squandered

you will have squandered

they will have squandered

Future perfect continuous

I will have been squandering

you will have been squandering

he/she/it will have been squandering

we will have been squandering

you will have been squandering

they will have been squandering

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would squander

you would squander

he/she/it would squander

we would squander

you would squander

they would squander

Conditional continuous

I would be squandering

you would be squandering

he/she/it would be squandering

we would be squandering

you would be squandering

they would be squandering

Conditional perfect

I would have squander

you would have squander

he/she/it would have squander

we would have squander

you would have squander

they would have squander

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been squandering

you would have been squandering

he/she/it would have been squandering

we would have been squandering

you would have been squandering

they would have been squandering

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you squander
we let´s squander
you squander

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to squander

Past participle

squandered

Present Participle

squandering

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SQUANDER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «squander» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of squander

blow · consume · dissipate · expend · lavish · misspend · misuse · run through · scatter · spend · waste

TRANSLATION OF SQUANDER

Find out the translation of squander to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of squander from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «squander» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 浪费
• Translator English - Spanish: despilfarrar
• English: squander
• Translator English - Hindi: अपव्यय
• Translator English - Arabic: يُبَدِّدُ
• Translator English - Russian: расточать
• Translator English - Portuguese: desperdiçar
• Translator English - Bengali: ফুঁকা
• Translator English - French: dilapider
• Translator English - Malay: Sengsara
• Translator English - German: vergeuden
• Translator English - Japanese: 浪費する
• Translator English - Korean: 낭비하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Squander
• Translator English - Vietnamese: lãng phí
• Translator English - Tamil: விரயம் செய்
• Translator English - Marathi: गमावणे
• Translator English - Turkish: boşa harcama
• Translator English - Italian: sperperare
• Translator English - Polish: roztrwonić
• Translator English - Ukrainian: розтринькувати
• Translator English - Romanian: a risipi
• Translator English - Greek: χαραμίζω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: vermorsing
• Translator English - Swedish: slösa bort
• Translator English - Norwegian: sløse

10 QUOTES WITH «SQUANDER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word squander.

1

John Breaux

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

2

Anna Julia Cooper

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

3

Julia Glass

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

4

Christine Gregoire

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

5

Margaret Heffernan

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

6

Wang Jianlin

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

7

Tony Judt

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.

8

Walter Savage Landor

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

9

Dennis Moore

We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing.

10

George Sand

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SQUANDER»

Discover the use of squander in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to squander and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Don't Squander Our Dearly-Bought Freedom

Don't Squander Our Dearly-Bought Freedom tells a story of political turmoil in the Post-apartheid era.

J. C. Buthelezi, 2003

The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

Carleton's big house novel The Squanders of Castle Squander (1852) depicts a familiar gentry estate, shamefully neglected and convivially debauched – virtually a mid-nineteenth-century Castle Rackrent. Despite the growing indignation its ...

John Wilson Foster, 2006

The Gift of Property: Having the Good / betraying ...

This beauty, known as nature itself, being itself, beyond neutrality, may also be known, betrayed, as squander. I return from this interruption to squander. Bataille insists on the luxurious squandering of energy without growth as if we might have  ...

Stephen David Ross, 2001

Marriage A-la-mode: A Re-view of Hogarth's Narrative Art

Lord Squander chose outmoded weapons, those most appropriate for a descendant of the Duke of Normandy, but which require a dexterity and a quickness he lacks. Hogarth turned the old saying upside down; the man of words proves ...

Robert L. S. Cowley, William Hogarth, 1983

Squander Bug

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Isidoros Krastyo Morpheus, 2012

Blow Your Bank Wad: More Than 101 Scandalous Ways to ...

Sidebar tips woven throughout the book highlight the many funny, fascinating, and frightening aspects of inheritance, estate planning, and unbridled indulgence.

Tad Carrier-Boxmüeller, Alicia Carrier-Boxmüeller, 2007

Global Environmental Change and Human Security

Free. to. Squander? Democracy. and. Sustainable. Development,. 1975–2000. Indra de Soysa, Jennifer Bailey, and Eric Neumayer Sustainable development is a process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of ...

Matthew, Richard A., Jon Barnett, Bryan McDonald

The merchant's clerk: and other tales

It was a dark, cold, rainy November night, when Lord Squander was riding home in his carriage, from a ball at Almack's. I do not know by what concatenation of unfortunate circumstances it was, that his carriage wheels rolled off, and my lord  ...

Samuel Warren, 1836

Letters and Documents

you squander its contents healthily and gaily for fun or pleasure. But what you must not squander, what you yourself will probably know how to treat with some economy, is something I do not squander either, regardless of how generously I ...

Søren Kierkegaard, Henrik Rosenmeier, 1978

Time and the Soul: Where Has All the Meaningful Time ...

When we contain our psychic energy we experience the adequacy of time; when we squander our psychic energy we squander time. And we squander our psychic energy because we do not sense and feel the transitoriness and relative  ...

Jacob Needleman, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SQUANDER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term squander is used in the context of the following news items.

Bucks squander large lead in loss to Cavs

It appeared it would be no problem Monday as the Bucks spurted to a 21-point lead with just over 5 minutes remaining. But a late meltdown allowed the ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jul 15»

​20000 transport workers strike as Tube bosses 'squander …

Workers from four London transport unions will take industrial action from Wednesday night, despite 'strenuous efforts' to cut a deal with Transport for London ... «RT, Jul 15»

Dodgers squander chances in 4-2 loss to Cubs

KEY MOMENT: The Dodgers held a 1-0 lead in the third inning when Yasiel Puig and Joc Pederson drew consecutive walks with two outs. Up came Justin ... «Los Angeles Times, Jun 15»

Dem: Benghazi probe likely to 'squander' more than $6 million

“At this glacial pace, the Benghazi investigation will last longer than the Watergate investigation and the 9/11 Commission, and it will squander more than $6 ... «The Hill, Jun 15»

State lawmakers shouldn't squander progress on transportation bill

State lawmakers shouldn't squander progress on transportation bill. Originally published June 11, 2015 at 5:31 pm Updated June 11, 2015 at 5:32 pm. «The Seattle Times, Jun 15»

Unlucky Seven: Watching the Rangers and the Ducks Squander …

Marc Staal wore his New York Rangers hat pulled down so low it was hard to see his eyes. Henrik Lundqvist's peepers were almost feral in their stunned ... «Grantland, Jun 15»

ESM head urges Tsipras not to squander Greek sacrifices: paper

BERLIN Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras should not squander the sacrifices that his compatriots have made so far with its painful reforms, the head of the ... «Reuters, May 15»

World must not 'squander' opportunity in Somalia, UN envoy tells …

“The world should not squander this opportunity. We need to reinforce success with increased engagement and resources in the coming months.” Mr. Kay said ... «UN News Centre, May 15»

Wealthy Parents Worry Kids Will Squander Inheritances

Many high-income parents are concerned that by leaving a large inheritance, it can do more harm than good for their loved ones, according to a new survey. «Accounting Today, May 15»

Bucks steal Game 5 as listless Bulls squander closeout opportunity

CHICAGO—Very little has gone according to plan for the Chicago Bulls in the cosmic joke that has unfolded, slowly and consistently, since the first time Derrick ... «SI.com, Apr 15»