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verprassen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dissipation noun The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
  • 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

  1. noun The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
  4. noun A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.

lavish — full definition

  1. adj Given, spent, or produced in great and often extravagant abundance.
  2. verb To give something generously and abundantly, often to excess.

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