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SQUANDERED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does squandered mean?
• SQUANDERED (adjective)
The adjective SQUANDERED has 1 sense:
1. not used to good advantage
Familiarity information: SQUANDERED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not used to good advantage
Synonyms:
squandered; wasted
Context example:
a wasted effort
Similar:
lost (no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered)
Context examples
He was a man of excellent birth and education, who had squandered a fortune upon the turf, and who lived now by doing a little quiet and genteel book-making in the sporting clubs of London.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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