• SQUANDER

effundere: profundere (to spend lavishly): conficere: consumere (to consume by lavish expenditure). (The words are found in this connection and order.) effundere et consumere: dissipare (general term, to scatter abroad, dissipate): abligurire (to consume by luxurious or dainty living): lacerare (to cut up): perdere (to destroy): heluari (to lavish upon immoderate feasting): ☞ prodigere is an old word, revived in the decline of the language, and therefore to be avoided. To squander one’s property, rem suam conficere or lacerare: to squander one’s time, tempus perdere; tempore abuti.