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garner | squander |

As verbs the difference between garner and squander

is that garner is to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary while squander is to waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.

As a noun garner

is a granary; a store of grain.

As a proper noun Garner

is {{surname|lang=en}.

garner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A granary; a store of grain.
  • * :
    • That'' our garners ''may be'' full, affording all manner of store: ''that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.
  • * :
    • Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner ; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
  • An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
  • To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
  • * 1835 ,
    • I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.
  • * 1913 , in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
    • He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
  • * 1956 ,
    • ...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.
  • (often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap.
    • He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
    Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
    His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
  • * 1983 ,
    • This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.
  • * 1999 ,
    • President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...
  • (rare) to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
  • * 1849 ,
    • For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;

    Usage notes

    The "earn, acquire, accumulate" sense should be read as a figurative extension of the original "harvest, gather" sense, sometimes with some inanimate achievement or choice metaphorically doing the "gathering", as "The new book garnered high praise''", or with an indirect object, as, "''The new book garnered the author high praise''". In this sense, the achievement, choice, or fact is actively gathering something, positive or negative, for its creator, even if that choice is inaction, as in "''Failure to try can garner you the disapproval of the industrious ".

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "garner")

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    squander

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
  • * 1746 , Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac Agribusiness Management
    • Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 24 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As the game opened up, Bolton squandered a fine opportunity to equalise - Chris Eagles shooting straight at Szczesny - but then back came Arsenal.}}
  • (obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
  • * Dryden
    • Our squandered troops he rallies.
  • To wander at random; to scatter.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The wise man's folly is anatomized / Even by squandering glances of the fool.

    Usage notes

    Squander implies starting with many resources, such as great wealth, and then wasting them (using them up to little purpose or little effect), often ending with little. Particularly used in phrases such as “squander an opportunity” or “squander an inheritance”. It may be used even if one starts with little, though usually in some construction such as “squander what little he had”.

    Synonyms

    * waste, splurge * ducks and drakes * throw away

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