Definition of "squander"

squander

/ˈskwɒnd.ə/

verb
third-person singular simple present squanders, present participle squandering, simple past and past participle squandered
1. To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
  Quotations
  Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
  1746, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
  As the game opened up, Bolton squandered a fine opportunity to equalise - Chris Eagles shooting straight at Szczesny - but then back came Arsenal.
  2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport‎
2. (obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
  Quotations
  […] our ſquander’d Troops he rallies: […]
  1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], Act I, page 2
3. (obsolete) To wander at random; to scatter.
  Quotations
  […] The Wiſe-mans folly is anathomiz’d / Euen by ſquandring glances of the foole.
  c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene vii], page 193, column 1