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squander [ˈskwɒndəɐ, Am ˈskwɑ:ndɚ] VB trans

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Usage examples with squander

to squander an opportunity
упуска́ть возмо́жность

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The lord of the 8th occupying the 2nd house from the lagna will make a person witness his or her wealth decline or get squandered.
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What he does now instead, is squander his gift on petty quarrels, he wrote.
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However, he also wrote that the game squanders its most unique ideas...
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Fortunes are made and squandered, honor betrayed and redeemed, and love lost and rediscovered.
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His narrative skills are squandered on a frail recipe that lacks his customary involvement.
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Although her family had a comfortable income when she was a child, her father gradually squandered it on speculative projects.
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She and her sister squander their education and youth.
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Her husband bought his shop with her dowry, goes to the alehouse at every opportunity and squanders his money playing ninepins.
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He had squandered much of his income on high living and poor investments.
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In particular, the two on the far right warn that even earned riches are as susceptible to squander and waste as any other.
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