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1 desperdiciar
v.to waste.Ella desaprovechó el dinero She wasted the money.* * *1 to waste, squander (oportunidad) to throw away* * *verb1) to waste2) miss* * *VT [+ comida, tiempo] to waste; [+ oportunidad] to waste, throw away; [+ fortuna] to waste, squander* * *verbo transitivo <comida/papel/tela> to waste; < oportunidad> to miss, waste* * *= waste, squander, go to + waste, fritter away.Ex. Long keys are not handled by wasting space in the data base, but by using only enough space to store the key.Ex. By doing this, resources will be squandered.Ex. The article 'Information: the resource that goes to waste' argues that industry has consistently failed to use the information at its disposal in a coherent and integrated system.Ex. Most of the money spent was frittered away on projects that did nothing to make America safer.----* desperdiciar tiempo = squander + time.* desperdiciar una ocasión = kill + chance.* desperdiciar una oportunidad = toss away + opportunity, waste + opportunity, spurn + chance.* sin desperdiciar un (solo) minuto = without a moment wasted, without a wasted moment, without a minute wasted, without a wasted minute.* * *verbo transitivo <comida/papel/tela> to waste; < oportunidad> to miss, waste* * *= waste, squander, go to + waste, fritter away.Ex: Long keys are not handled by wasting space in the data base, but by using only enough space to store the key.
Ex: By doing this, resources will be squandered.Ex: The article 'Information: the resource that goes to waste' argues that industry has consistently failed to use the information at its disposal in a coherent and integrated system.Ex: Most of the money spent was frittered away on projects that did nothing to make America safer.* desperdiciar tiempo = squander + time.* desperdiciar una ocasión = kill + chance.* desperdiciar una oportunidad = toss away + opportunity, waste + opportunity, spurn + chance.* sin desperdiciar un (solo) minuto = without a moment wasted, without a wasted moment, without a minute wasted, without a wasted minute.* * *desperdiciar [A1 ]vt‹comida/papel/tela› to waste; ‹oportunidad› to miss, waste* * *
desperdiciar ( conjugate desperdiciar) verbo transitivo ‹comida/papel/tela› to waste;
‹ oportunidad› to miss, waste
desperdiciar verbo transitivo
1 (malgastar) to waste
2 (no aprovechar) to throw away: no puedes desperdiciar la ocasión, you can't miss this opportunity
' desperdiciar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
delito
- gastar
- tirar
English:
blow
- idle away
- squander
- throw away
- waste
- dissipate
- fritter
- muff
* * *desperdiciar vt[tiempo, energía, comida] to waste; [dinero] to waste, to squander; [ocasión, oportunidad] to waste, to throw away* * *v/t oportunidad waste* * *desperdiciar vt1) desaprovechar, malgastar: to waste2) : to miss, to miss out on* * *desperdiciar vb to waste
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