Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To spend or give with prodigality or profuseness; lavish; prodigate.
- To be extravagant in expenditure: with an indefinite it.
- Also spelled
prodigalise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To act as a prodigal; to spend liberally.
- transitive verb To expend lavishly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
spend lavishly .
Etymologies
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prodigal + -ize
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Examples
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Such, too, are the terrible chastisements reserved for the thoughtlessness or foolish pride of these dissolute gray-beards, who prodigalize the last breath of their life in search of depraved voluptuousness. "
Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897
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Such, too, are the terrible chastisements reserved for the thoughtlessness or foolish pride of these dissolute grey-beards, who prodigalize the last breath of their life in search of depraved voluptuousness. "
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877
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