What does fritter away mean?

fritter away means "spend frivolously and unwisely".

What is another word for fritter away?

Close synonyms include fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fool. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fritter away a common word?

fritter away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

fritter away — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
spend frivolously and unwisely
“Fritter away one's inheritance”
Synonymsfritter frivol away dissipate shoot fool fool away
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