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How to sign: be in motion due to some air or water current
"The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore";
Similiar / Same: float, drift, be adrift
Categories: go, locomote, move, travel
Within this category: stream, tide, waft
How to sign: spend thoughtlessly; throw away
"He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree";
Similiar / Same: waste, squander
Within this category: burn
How to sign: show off
Similiar / Same: boast, shoot a line, brag, vaunt, gasconade, tout, gas, bluster, swash
Categories: amplify, exaggerate, hyerbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate