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Fool Away

Definition: Fool Away

Fool Away

Verb

1. Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Fool Away

Synonyms: dissipate (v), fool (v), fritter (v), fritter away (v), frivol away (v), shoot (v). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Fool Away

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inactivity	Idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time; spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder, dabble, faddle fribble, fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally.
Prodigality	Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.
Waste	Cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Expressions: Fool Away

Expressions using "fool away": fool away one's time ♦ To fool away. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Fool Away

Language		Translations for "fool away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		разпилявам (blow about, cast away, consume, disperse, potter away, squander, throw about). (various references)

Hungarian		elpocsékol (lost, to cast away, to fool away, to lose, to pass away, to slather, to waste). (various references)

Pig Latin		oolfay awayay

Romanian		irosi prosteşte. (various references)

Swedish		slarva bort. (various references)

Turkish		boşa geçirmek (dawdle, dawdle away, drone away, fribble, frig, idle away, loaf away, loiter away, potter away, waste), aptalca harcamak. (various references)

Ukrainian		витрачати марно. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Fool Away

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-f-l-o-o-w-y"
	-3 letters: aloof, alway, flawy, loofa, wooly.
	-4 letters: alfa, alow, away, awol, flaw, flay, flow, foal, fool, fowl, loaf, loof, ofay, waly, wolf, woof, wool, yawl, yowl.
	-5 letters: aal, ala, awa, awl, fay, fly, foy, law, lay, loo, low, oaf, owl, way, woo, yaw, yow.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography

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