• (British) IPA: /ˈskwɒnd.ə/, [ˈskwɒnd.ə]
• (America) IPA: /ˈskwɑn.dɚ/, [ˈskʷɑn.dɚ]

squander (squanders, present participle squandering; past and past participle squandered)

1. To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
   • 1746, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

     Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

   • I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

2. (obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.

   • Our squandered troops he rallies.

3. (obsolete) To wander at random; to scatter.
   • c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene vii]:

     The wise man's folly is anatomized / Even by squandering glances of the fool.

• waste, splurge
• ducks and drakes
• throw away

• French: gâcher, gaspiller, dilapider
• German: verschwenden, vergeuden, verprassen
• Italian: dissipare, dilapidare, scialare, sperperare
• Portuguese: esbanjar
• Russian: прома́тывать
• Spanish: malbaratar, despilfarrar, derrochar, farrear