What is another word for Frittered?

Pronunciation: [fɹˈɪtəd] (IPA)

Frittered is a verb that refers to wasting or foolishly using valuable resources, time, or opportunities without any significant outcome. Several English words can replace frittered, depending on the context of usage or the purpose of communication. Some synonyms for frittered include squandered, wasted, fiddled, misused, lost, dissipated, depleted, discarded, consumed, and thrown away. Each of these words has a slight variation in meaning, and their usage can improve the writer's clarity while expressing their thoughts. For example, squandered emphasizes reckless or extravagant use of resources and is suitable for financial contexts, while wasted highlights the uselessness or unproductivity of an action and is appropriate for time and effort-consuming activities.

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    • Verb, past participle
      wasted.

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Usage examples for Frittered

His powers have been at once overstrained and Frittered away.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
He owns himself its unworthy representative: for he has Frittered away his powers.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Its sittings ought not to be Frittered away in discussing proposals that have no chance of success; while measures that are to be brought before the whole body ought to be threshed out beforehand, their provisions carefully weighed and put into precise language, objections, if possible, met by concession and compromise, or brought to a sharp difference of principle.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell

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