Word Meanings - PRODIGALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To act as a prodigal; to spend liberally. Sherwood.

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• PRODIGALLY
  In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• SPENDTHRIFTY
  Spendthrift; prodigal.
• SPEND
  to expend, dispense. See Pendant, and cf. Dispend, Expend, Spence, 1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. Spend thou that in the town. Shak. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread
• PRODIGAL
  Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses. In fighting
• PRODIGALITY
  Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony."The prodigality of his wit." Dryden.
• SPENDING
  The act of expending; expenditure. Spending money, money set apart for extra personal expenses; pocket money.
• LIBERALLY
  In a liberal manner.
• PRODIGALIZE
  To act as a prodigal; to spend liberally. Sherwood.
• DESPEND
  To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• DISPEND
  To spend; to lay out; to expend. Spenser. Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller. (more info) dispense; dis- + pendere to weigh. See Pension, Spend, and cf.
• MISSPENDER
  One who misspends.
• DISPENDER
  One who dispends or expends; a steward. Wyclif (1 Cor. iv. 1).
• SUSPEND
  To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action. To suspend payment , to cease paying debts or obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc. Syn. -- To hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay;
• OUTSPEND
  Outlay; expenditure. A mere outspend of savageness. I. Taylor.
• ILLIBERALLY
  In a illiberal manner, ungenerously; uncharitably; parsimoniously.
• SELF-SUSPENDED
  Suspended by one's self or by itself; balanced. Southey.
• OVERLIBERALLY
  In an overliberal manner.
• SUSPENDER
  One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.
• MISPELL; MISPEND
  See ETC