Fritter Away

Definition: Fritter Away

Fritter 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: Fritter Away

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.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Bate, abate, dequantitate; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate; (moderate); dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce; shorten; subtract. Adjective: unincreased; (see increase;); decreased; Verb: decreasing; Verb: on the wane; n.

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.

Crosswords: Fritter Away

Expression using "fritter away": To fritter away. Additional references.

Albanian

prish kot. (various references)

Bulgarian 

пропилявам (misspend, muddle away, riot away, run through, spend, wanton). (various references)

Czech

promarnit (dawdle away, dissipate, squander, throw away, throw up, trifle away, waste). (various references)

German

verzetteln (catalogue, dissipate, fritter, to dissipate, to fritter, waste), vertrödeln (dawdle away, idle away), vertändeln, verpulvern (blow), verprassen (guzzle), verplempern (fritter, squander, waste), verludern (go to the bad, squander), verbummeln (get lazy, go to seed, idle away, laze away, lose, Miss, to idle away, waste). (various references)

Greek 

κατασπαταλώ (squander). (various references)

Hungarian

szétforgácsol (to dissipate, to fritter away, to sliver, to splinter), elapróz (to fritter away, to morsel). (various references)

Pig Latin

itterfray awayay

Portuguese

dissipar (consume, die away, dispel, disperse, dissipate, evanesce, fritter, melt, overblow, run to waste, squander). (various references)

Russian 

распылять (airbrushed, airbrushing, atomize, pulverize, spray, volatilize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

straćiti (fling away, overspend, putter, squander), proigrati (begin to dance, gamble away). (various references)

Swedish

slösa bort (blue, dissipate, frivol away, idle away, loaf away, misspend, sport away, squander, squnder). (various references)

Turkish

ziyan etmek (consume, fritter, frivol away, throw away, throw to the dogs), israf etmek (chuck away, fritter, prodigalize, squander, squander away, throw to the dogs, waste), boşa harcamak (cast away, chuck away, dissipate, fling away, footle, fritter, frivol away, idle, idle away, lavish, misapply, misspend, pass away, pour down the drain, scatter, squander, squander away, throw away, throw to the dogs, trifle away, waste). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: tertiary, wayfarer.

-4 letters: airfare, arietta, awaiter, fairway, fattier, fritter, rattier, retiary, terrify, warfare, wartier.

-5 letters: aerify, airway, artery, artier, attire, aweary, errata, fairer, fatter, ferity, fitter, frater, fretty, friary, irater, rafter, rarefy, rarify, rarity, ratify, ratite, ratter, ritter, tartar, tarter, territ, titfer, treaty, triter, wafery, wafter, waiter, warier, watery, watter, writer, yatter, yttria.