(v. t.) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
Example Sentences:
(1) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.
(2) Numerous CA fibers which are first observed at the level of the preoptic area, ascend through the central zone of the telencephalon and arborize profusely particularly within the medial zone of area dorsalis telencephali.
(3) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
(4) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
(5) One patient had died of profuse rectovaginal bleeding.
(6) Brain hematomas caused by AVMs were on average bigger than those caused by AOVMs (58.8 and 20% of large hematomas, respectively), and intraventricular and subarachnoid hemorrhages were also more common and profuse in patients with AVMs.
(7) A common although infrequently recognized complication associated with the use of a pneumatic tourniquet is profuse bleeding from the wound after deflation of the tourniquet.
(8) Profuse calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals were detected in some samples 11 days after the race.
(9) The mean birth weight and height were significantly greater in the control group, and no control infant had an episode of cyanosis or pallor or repeated episodes of profuse sweating observed during their sleep.
(10) Profuse rectal bleeding, a large ischiorectal abscess, and an acute condition of the abdomen necessiated a sigmoid colostomy with drainage of the ischiorectal abscess.
(11) There was poor correlation between the pulmonary function tests and the nodular profusion on the chest radiograph and CT (r less than 0.50).
(12) The observations allow the conclusion that during acute otitis media the duration of mastoiditis development reduced and many classical symptoms of mastoiditis, e. g. protrusion of the posterior-superior wall of the external acoustic meatus, profuse purulent discharge from the ear, hyperemia, swelling of the behind-the-ear area, occurred less frequently.
(13) Some patients with scarred focal proliferative glomerulonephritis showed profuse proteinuria, a nephrotic syndrome and progression to renal insufficiency.
(14) In contrast with the situation only a decade ago, a profusion of new potential AEDs has been introduced for world-wide clinical testing.
(15) The other patient died of profuse pulmonary hemorrhage.
(16) Exploration laparotomy showed a round perforation at the site of the right uterine horn, absence of the right fallopian tube, and profuse hemorrhage from the horn and parametrium.
(17) The author describes the case-histories of four leiomyomas in the course of five years, all were the cause of profuse haemorrhage.
(18) In particular, Aspergillus fumigatus was cultured more frequently than would have been anticipated from its profusion in the air.
(19) Microscopically, there was severe necrotizing angiopathy with profuse fibrin deposition in renal glomeruli and sinusoids of peripheral lymph nodes.
(20) In the untreated state, the diarrhea was never profuse.
Squander
Definition:
(v. t.) To scatter; to disperse.
(v. t.) To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.
(v. i.) To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
(v. i.) To wander at random; to scatter.
(n.) The act of squandering; waste.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obviously that inning, and game four in general, was frustrating for the Oakland A's, as they squandered several opportunities to knock out the Tigers.
(2) If Heathrow were shrunk or closed, he says, the investment that has gone into the airport would be squandered.
(3) His would undoubtedly be squandered on Paul Smith outfits and holidays in Mykonos.
(4) The UK's weather seems set on squandering one of its last chances to make amends for the largely dismal summer by threatening wind and rain for the event-packed bank holiday weekend.
(5) Previous titles in the series track the unfolding of the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster: Syrian Catastrophe, War on Development, Squandering Humanity, and Alienation and Violence.
(6) A furious Aitor Karanka tore into his Middlesbrough players and aimed a swipe at Boro supporters after squandering the opportunity to go top of the Championship table at Blackburn.
(7) Part of me feels I squandered the chances she gave me.
(8) At his presidential announcement last week, former Texas governor Rick Perry called the withdrawal from Iraq “a national disgrace” and argued that the US had “won” the war in 2009 only to see the Obama administration squander its victory by leaving.
(9) Most consistent home wins record although has been known to squander leads late in games.
(10) Weaver said the New York tour, which he called a “cousin” of the Iowa road trip, was executed “brilliantly” by Clinton’s then-campaign team, which launched a successful bid for senate before her confidants squandered an early advantage in chasing the White House seven years later.
(11) It's as mad and dysfunctional as the idea that education is wasted on mothers, because they will squander it on overseeing the education of their children.
(12) After Branislav Ivanovic and Markovic had squandered decent chances, Kolarov doubled Serbia's lead with a 25-yard shot that arrowed into the top corner.
(13) Sterling squandered a glorious chance to restore Liverpool's lead in a second half where they remained dangerous on the break, but Everton maintained overall control.
(14) Adam Lallana and Sterling squandered glorious chances to put the game beyond QPR in the second half and their profligacy was punished when Fer vollied Joey Barton’s corner down the centre of Mignolet’s goal.
(15) Millions of British will pay a higher price – the needless squandering of their lives.
(16) Mumbaikars are excited, but also apprehensive: opportunities like this have been hijacked and squandered in the past.
(17) If asset managers and pension funds continue to ignore the threat, they face being accused of negligence - squandering billions of other people’s money on potentially disastrous investment decisions, because they were not taking the risk of climate change and what the cost of dealing with it could do to financial markets seriously enough.” Bruce Davis from Abundance Generation said: “We believe that renewable energy is an important new asset for investors to get returns which are importantly uncorrelated with the traditional financial system.
(18) Throughout this tournament, the striker with a bowl-cut straight out of Hull circa 1986 has lead the line superbly, made perceptive runs, found excellent scoring positions ... and squandered more opportunities than a boy who's been expelled from Eton, Harrow and every other fee-paying school in the land.
(19) Yet every day of waiting is a day wasted, with potential going untapped and opportunities squandered.
(20) He said England’s destiny had been in their control with opportunities squandered.