Verb:

ਕੂੜਾ, ਬਰਬਾਦ,

fritter away's Usage Examples:

Saints fritter away their chances".

there are virtuous people, who in family, at school, in society, do not fritter away their lives.

NL pennant in late September—only to lose ten games in succession and fritter away a 6½-game lead to finish tied for second.

And I want to build on what I"m standing on, not just fritter away my vantage point from atop the dead, yet it feels that to do so I have.

Continuing to the northeast, Rosenberg began to "fritter away" forces to guard his flanks and rear.

standard: a hugely successful second coming from a band determined not to fritter away their reserves of goodwill.

was here to provide them with money, to gamble, to travel, to simply fritter away and very quickly, within a couple of decades, they had wasted the whole.

spin and weave and "acquire every womanly accomplishment, rather than fritter away their time in sheer idleness".

7 (13) – fritter away chances to get a decisive break.

refer to themselves as "time drunks", because they have a propensity to fritter away their time in useless activities, rather than pursuing constructive goals.

touch embarrassed by the program, and eager to let the little furor fritter away into oblivion.

realistic digitized sound", and concluded that it "is a perfect way to fritter away those long winter evenings when you should be doing something productive".

with broken glitters of light and scattered flecks of shadow, which fritter away effect.

Synonyms:

frivol away, consume, eat, shoot, fool away, eat up, exhaust, fritter, ware, run through, wipe out, deplete, squander, dissipate, fool, waste, use up,

Antonyms:

abstain, underspend, eat out, eat in, reassure,