Squander Crossword Clue

While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Squander crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on February 7 2024 in the popular Newsday Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Squander has a total of 5 letters.

RankAnswerCluePublisher
99%WASTESquanderNewsday
20%BLOWSquander as cashLA Times
20%BLEWSquanderedUSA Today
20%WASTESSquandersUSA Today
20%FRITTEREDSquandered (away)Newsday

Definition

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

Recent Usage in Crossword Puzzles:

  • Newsday: Feb 7, 2024
  • Thomas Joseph: Dec 19, 2023
  • LA Times: Oct 10, 2023
  • USA Today: Sep 30, 2023
  • Eugene Sheffer: Jul 20, 2023
  • USA Today: Apr 10, 2023
  • Newsday: Feb 21, 2023

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