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Verb

to fritter away ‎(third-person singular simple present fritters away, present participle frittering away, simple past and past participle frittered away)

1. (transitive) To squander or waste.
   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 6,

     “There is little need,” said the monk, with a meaning look, “to fritter away the time in gewgaws.”

   • 1890, James M. Barrie, My Lady Nicotine, ch. 4,

     I had been frittering away my money, too, on luxuries.

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