Wasted vs Squandered - What's the difference?
wasted | squandered | Related terms |
Not profitably used.
Ravaged or deteriorated.
Emaciated and haggard.
(slang) very drunk or stoned.
(medicine) low weight-for-height (for a person).
(waste)
(squander)
To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
* 1746 , Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
* {{quote-news
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(obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
* Dryden
To wander at random; to scatter.
* Shakespeare
Wasted is a related term of squandered.
As verbs the difference between wasted and squandered
is that wasted is (waste) while squandered is (squander).As an adjective wasted
is not profitably used.wasted
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- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
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- Our squandered troops he rallies.
- The wise man's folly is anatomized / Even by squandering glances of the fool.