| NOUN | food | fritter | small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables |
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| VERB | consumption | fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away | spend frivolously and unwisely |
| Sounds | frih'ter | |
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| Rhymes | abductor ... zoster: 649 rhymes with ter... | |
| Meaning | small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables. | |
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| Narrower | apple fritter | fritter containing sliced apple |
| corn fritter | fritter containing corn or corn kernels | |
| Broader | friedcake | small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat |
| Spanish | buñuelo | |
| Catalan | bunyol | |
| Meaning | spend frivolously and unwisely. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "Fritter away one's inheritance" | |
| Synonyms | frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away | |
| Entails | consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out | use up (resources or materials) |
| Broader | consume, squander, waste, ware | spend extravagantly |
| Spanish | derrochar, dilapidar, disipar, disparar, malgastar, prodigar | |
| Catalan | disparar, dissipar, malgastar | |
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