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fritter away > verb, consumption
Meaning	Spend frivolously and unwisely.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Examples	"Fritter away one's inheritance"
Synonyms	fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fool, fool away
Broader	consume, squander, waste, ware
Entails	consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out