Fritter: alternatives and connections

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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To scatter; to disperse.

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Wore.

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

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A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.

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An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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