mindmap root((浪费)) waste usually implies careless or prodigal expenditure: ~d her money on frivolous items; but it may also imply fruitless or useless expenditure: why ~ time trying to help people who want no help? squander stresses reckless and lavish expenditure that tends to exhaust resources: ~ed all their time and energy playing tennis. （lavish慷慨或过分慷慨铺张奢侈,如a lavish state dinner丰盛的国宴） dissipate implies loss by extravagance and commonly stresses exhaustion of the store or stock: eventually realized they had ~d all their resources. fritter usually used with away, implies expenditure on trifles, bit by bit, or without commensurate return: ~ed away the entire afternoon on aimless pursuits. consume can imply a wasting or squandering as entirely as if by devouring: built a fire that ~d the entire stock of wood.