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fritter away

/ˈfrɪt.ər əˈweɪ/

Traducción: Verbo que se usa para indicar el despilfarro o malgasto de algo, especialmente tiempo o dinero, de manera gradual o descuidada.

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verb

/ˈfrɪt.ər əˈweɪ/B2formal
  • esVerbo que se usa para indicar el despilfarro o malgasto de algo, especialmente tiempo o dinero, de manera gradual o descuidada.

A phrasal verb used to indicate wasting something, especially time or money, in a gradual or careless manner.

incontable · transitivo · phrasal, separable

  1. Waste time or resourcesinformal

    To waste something, especially time or money, in a gradual or careless way.

    esdespilfarrar, malgastar

    • He frittered away his inheritance on expensive cars.
    • She frittered away the afternoon watching TV.
    • Don't fritter away your savings on unnecessary things.

    Sinónimosblowdissipatemisspendrun throughsquanderthrow awaywaste

    Antónimosaccumulateconserveeconomizehoardhusbandinvestpreservesave

Formas
  • frittered away past participle
  • frittered away past simple
  • frittering away present participle
  • fritters away third person singular

Verbo basefritter

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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