fritter
verb (used with object)
to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed byaway ).
have frittered
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present perfectof fritter.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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With a competent pitching staff — not even a great one, mind you — the Angels might not have frittered away Mike Trout’s twenty-something years.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2021
Some of the other batsmen may have frittered their wickets away with shot selection so random it could have been generated by Guinevere the national lottery machine.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2012
If I bear a grudge against this Pirates, it's because its caretakers have frittered away the buoyancy of the original film.
From Time ● May 14, 2011
But inexperience and the chronic fractiousness of Philippine politics have frittered away her advantages.
From Time Magazine Archive
God help me! if I proceed in this scribbling, I shall have frittered away my mind before I am thirty, but it is at times a real relief to me.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
