dawdle+away
11dawdle — v 1. waste time, take one s time or one s own sweet time, kill time, fritter time away; idle, trifle, finick, potter, fiddle, piddle, Inf. fiddle faddle; dally, dilly dally, procrastinate, Inf. diddle, shilly shally, vacillate. 2. loiter, poke,… …
12dawdle — v. & n. v. 1 intr. a walk slowly and idly. b delay; waste time. 2 tr. (foll. by away) waste (time). n. an act or instance of dawdling. Derivatives: dawdler n. Etymology: perh. rel. to dial. daddle, doddle idle, dally …
13trifle away — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work: dawdle (away), fiddle away, idle (away), kill1, waste, while (away), wile (away). See INDUSTRIOUS. 2. To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly: consume …
14fiddle away — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work: dawdle (away), idle (away), kill1, trifle away, waste, while (away), wile (away). See INDUSTRIOUS. II verb See fiddle …
15fritter away — 1. Diminish, pare off, reduce to nothing. 2. Misuse (time), waste, dawdle away, idle away, fool away. 3. Waste bit by bit, destroy gradually, waste by dispersion or by trifling and petty use …
16waste — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Gradual loss or decay Nouns 1. waste, wastage; dissipation; dispersion; ebb; leakage, loss; wear and tear; extravagance, wastefulness, prodigality, conspicuous consumption; waste of time; jeunesse dorée; …
17kill — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. slay (see killing); destroy, extinguish, nullify, cancel, veto. See nullification. n. creek, river; prey, quarry. See water, killing. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To deprive of life] Syn. slay, slaughter …
18wear — v 1. dress in, don, put on, slip into or on, get into, step into; display, show off, parade, flaunt, flourish, Inf. sport; bear, carry, exhibit, show, manifest, evince, reveal; assume, adopt. 2. impair, deteriorate, degenerate, worsen, canker,… …
19idle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. vain, useless, futile, fruitless, pointless, aimless; out of work, unemployed, inactive, at rest; vacant, empty. See inactivity, uselessness, unimportance.Ant., active, busy. II (Roget s IV) modif.… …
20while — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) conj. during, as long as, whilst, whereas; although. while away II (Roget s IV) conj. 1. [As long as] Syn. during, at the same time that, during the time that, whilst, throughout the time that, in the… …
