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fritter away

vb. (context transitive English) To squander or waste.

WordNet
fritter away

v. spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fool, fool away]

Usage examples of "fritter away".

They're still trying to force us to redeploy, to fritter away our strength.

If she hadn't weakened and frittered away money on wind chimes and sandals and earrings, she wouldn't have remembered how much fun it was to fritter away money in the first place.

How many years did you fritter away at court, spending gold as liberally as your clan procreates?

It may force them to do what we wanted all along and fritter away their wall of battle defending rear area systems.

But we could fritter away an awful lot of strength trying to cover a list of systems that long without being strong enough in any one place to make a difference.

It was too good a way to fritter away a numerical advantage and invite defeat in detail, especially if your timing screwed up, and that seemed to be what was about to happen to Hasselberg and Morser.

While their brothers were taught to ride in the Frankish fashion, to bear arms, and to hunt, the girls learned to spin, weave, and acquire every womanly accomplishment so that they would not fritter away their time in idleness.

And, frankly, it would be better for Becker to hold her part of the perimeter with two platoons, instead of three, than to fritter away Palacios' tactical reserve by slicing off still more detachments.

They might fritter away the dull, rough gems when they had found them, but the lust of handling diamonds once was the strongest passion they knew.

The world hangs by a thread, and myself, I do not wish to fritter away valuable hours prattling about supposed logic or chattering over what every fool and novice knows.

This is why laptops were invented, so that important business persons would not fritter away long flights relaxing.

He must look for companions manly and worthy of himself, and cease to fritter away his best days here at your side amid bowers and aviaries.