prodigalize
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
prodigalize (third-person singular simple present prodigalizes, present participle prodigalizing, simple past and past participle prodigalized)
- To spend lavishly.
- 1834, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii:
- Cabinets of gems , each cabinet itself a gem , filled up the interstices of the columns ; the most precious woods lined the thresholds and composed the doors ; gold and jewels seemed prodigalized all around
References[edit]
- “prodigalize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.