Antonyms for fritter

Grammar : Verb

Spell : frit-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfrɪt ər

Definition of fritter

Origin : "whittle away," 1728, from fritters "fragment or shred," possibly from a noun sense, but this is not recorded as early as the verb; perhaps an alteration of 16c. fitters "fragments or pieces," perhaps ultimately from Old French fraiture "a breaking," from Latin fractura. Or perhaps from a Germanic source (cf. Middle High German vetze "clothes, rags").

verb waste away

Example sentences :

But Delancy had no time to fritter away on niceties of etiquette.
Extract from : « Making People Happy » by Thompson Buchanan

But there are always a few who fritter their time, and leave the same as they enter.
Extract from : « Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall » by Jean K. Baird

The curse of the ranchers is that they fritter away their strength.
Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris

I want to keep it in my purse, and fritter it away just as I like.
Extract from : « Betty Trevor » by Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey

Your intelligence all in the abstract; only folly and fritter for your own affairs.
Extract from : « The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig » by David Graham Phillips

Shilly-shally, to trifle or fritter away time; to be irresolute.
Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten

A variety of pancake or fritter made of eggs and other ingredients.
Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley

You may use life in its fullness, or you may fritter your gifts and be a drone.
Extract from : « The Girls of St. Wode's » by L. T. Meade

I'll smash that lute of yours to bits; you fritter away your working hours with it!
Extract from : « Such is Life » by Frank Wedekind

You should have told me that you were intending to fritter and fool your afternoon away.
Extract from : « Christine » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Synonyms for fritter

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