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Webster 1913 Edition


Prodigate

Prod′i-gate

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Verb.
T.
To squander.
Thackeray.

Definition 2024


prodigate

prodigate

English

Verb

prodigate (third-person singular simple present prodigates, present participle prodigating, simple past and past participle prodigated)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To squander.
    • Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter LXIII:
      Yesterday he was heard to speak lightly of her Royal Highness Madame the Duchess of Berri... His gold is prodigated in every direction which his stupid menaces fail to frighten." -


Italian

Verb

prodigate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of prodigare
  2. second-person plural imperative of prodigare
  3. feminine plural of prodigato