Verprassen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- dissipation noun The process of scattering or spreading something out until it disappears, or the waste this causes.
- lavish adj Given, spent, or produced in great and often extravagant abundance.
- splurge verb To spend money freely and extravagantly.
- squander verb To waste money, time, or an opportunity carelessly.
Senses
Verprassen is used for these senses in English:
- dissipation A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
- lavish (transitive) To give out extremely generously; to squander.
- splurge (ambitransitive) To spend lavishly or extravagantly, especially money. [from 1911]
- squander To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
dissipation — full definition
- noun The process of scattering or spreading something out until it disappears, or the waste this causes.
- noun A lifestyle of excess, wasting time, money or health in the pursuit of pleasure.
- noun A small thing that wastes time or takes your attention away from something else.
- noun (physics) The gradual loss of energy from a system, usually given off as heat.
lavish — full definition
- adj Given, spent, or produced in great and often extravagant abundance.
- verb To give something generously and abundantly, often to excess.
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