What are the opposite words for squander?
Squander is a verb that refers to wastefully spending or using up resources or opportunities. Opposite to this action of squandering, the word "conserve" can be used to describe the act of carefully managing resources or being frugal with them. Other antonyms for squander include "save," "hoard," "preserve," "economize," "utilize," and "maximize." These words are commonly used to encourage responsible usage of resources and to promote sustainable living. In contrast to squandering, conserving resources and making the most out of available opportunities can help build a sustainable future for everyone.
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- store
- possession
- defend
- preserve
- rescue
- economize
- conserve
- protect
- accumulate
- concentrate
- cut back
- gather
- keep
- maintain
- pare
- reserve
- scrape
- skimp
- stint
- stock
- cache
- deposit
- garner
- harvest
- heap
- hoard
- obtain
- pile
- save
- scrimp
- gather or amass something
- hide a supply of something
- gather, collect
- save, protect
- locate, put in place for safekeeping
- preserve, immortalize
- collect, accumulate
- come or bring together
- gathering of produce
- amass, collect in pile
- put away, accumulate
- hold, maintain
- lay up/lay by
- care for, keep up
- get, acquire
- peel, trim
- gather, pack; put on top of another
- embalm
- care for, maintain; continue
- take care of; guard from harm
- keep, hold back
- scratch, remove outer layer
- be cheap or frugal about
- fritter away, use up
- economize; hold back
- supply with merchandise
- collect and put aside
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
store
- lock away,
- lock up,
- victual,
- warehousing,
- Hutched,
- Hutching,
- Victualed,
- Victualled,
- Victualing,
- Warehoused,
- locked up,
- locking up,
- pack away,
- keep in reserve,
- keep reserve,
- keeping in reserve,
- keeping reserve,
- keeps in reserve,
- keeps reserve,
- kept in reserve,
- kept reserve,
- locked away,
- locking away,
- locks away,
- packed away,
- packing away,
- packs away,
- put in storage,
- put storage,
- puts in storage,
- puts storage,
- putting in storage,
- putting storage.
- possession
-
defend
- care for,
- look after,
- panoplied,
- ward off,
- watch over,
- Bulwarked,
- Bulwarking,
- Garrisoned,
- Garrisoning,
- Housed,
- keep safe,
- guard against,
- kept safe,
- watched over,
- caring for,
- fight for,
- beat off,
- beating off,
- beats off,
- cared for,
- cares for,
- de fend,
- de fended,
- de fending,
- de fends,
- de-fend,
- de-fended,
- de-fending,
- de-fends,
- fighting for,
- fights for,
- guarded against,
- guarding against,
- guards against,
- held at bay,
- hold bay,
- holding at bay,
- holding bay,
- holds at bay,
- holds bay,
- in sure,
- in-sure,
- keeping safe,
- keeps safe,
- looked after,
- looking after,
- looks after,
- panoplying,
- pre vent,
- pre venting,
- pre vents,
- pre-vent,
- pre-vented,
- pre-venting,
- pre-vents,
- provide sanctuary,
- provided sanctuary,
- providing sanctuary,
- re tain,
- re tains,
- re-tain,
- re-tains,
- repel danger,
- repelled danger,
- repelling danger,
- repels danger,
- up held,
- up hold,
- up holding,
- up holds,
- up-held,
- up-hold,
- up-holding,
- up-holds,
- watching over,
- with stand,
- with standing,
- with stands,
- with stood,
- with-stand,
- with-standing,
- with-stands.
- preserve
-
rescue
- save.
-
economize
- cut back,
- cut corners,
- economize,
- scrimp,
- Shepherded,
- Shepherding,
- tighten one's belt,
- pinch pennies,
- pinched pennies,
- pinching pennies,
- pinches pennies,
- make ends meet,
- be frugal,
- be prudent,
- meet a budget,
- be sparing,
- am prudent,
- am sparing,
- are frugal,
- are prudent,
- are sparing,
- art frugal,
- art prudent,
- art sparing,
- being frugal,
- being prudent,
- being sparing,
- cuts corners,
- cutting corners,
- is frugal,
- is prudent,
- is sparing,
- keep within means,
- keeping within means,
- keeps within means,
- kept within means,
- made ends meet,
- makes ends meet,
- making ends meet,
- meet budget,
- meeting a budget,
- meeting budget,
- meets a budget,
- meets budget,
- met a budget,
- met budget,
- paid one way,
- paid one's way,
- paid ones way,
- paid way,
- pay one way,
- pay one's way,
- pay ones way,
- pay way,
- payed one way,
- payed one's way,
- payed ones way,
- payed way,
- paying one way,
- paying one's way,
- paying ones way,
- paying way,
- pays one way,
- pays one's way,
- pays ones way,
- pays way,
- ran tight ship,
- re trench,
- re trenched,
- re trenches,
- re trenching,
- re-trench,
- re-trenched,
- re-trenches,
- re-trenching,
- run tight ship,
- running tight ship,
- runs tight ship,
- stretch a dollar,
- stretch dollar,
- stretched a dollar,
- stretched dollar,
- stretches a dollar,
- stretches dollar,
- stretching a dollar,
- stretching dollar,
- tighten one belt,
- tighten ones belt,
- tightened belt,
- tightened one belt,
- tightened one's belt,
- tightened ones belt,
- tightening belt,
- tightening one belt,
- tightening one's belt,
- tightening ones belt,
- tightens belt,
- tightens one belt,
- tightens one's belt,
- tightens ones belt,
- was frugal,
- was prudent,
- was sparing,
- wast frugal,
- wast prudent,
- wast sparing,
- were frugal,
- were prudent,
- were sparing,
- wert frugal,
- wert prudent,
- wert sparing.
- conserve
-
protect
- defend,
- shotgun,
- stand guard,
- Sentineled,
- Sentinelled,
- Sentineling,
- Sentinelling,
- cover up,
- Shotguns,
- covered up,
- covering up,
- covers up,
- cover all bases,
- cover bases,
- covered all bases,
- covered bases,
- covering all bases,
- covering bases,
- covers all bases,
- covers bases,
- gave refuge,
- gave sanctuary,
- give refuge,
- give sanctuary,
- gives refuge,
- gives sanctuary,
- giving refuge,
- giving sanctuary,
- go bat for,
- rid shotgun for,
- ride shotgun for,
- rides shotgun for,
- riding shotgun for,
- rode shotgun for,
- shotgunned,
- shotgunning,
- standing guard,
- stands guard,
- stood guard,
- takes under wing,
- taking under wing,
- took under wing.
-
accumulate
- agglomerated,
- bring together,
- clean up,
- draw together,
- expand,
- load up,
- massed,
- pile up,
- piles,
- roll up,
- stack up,
- swell,
- swelled,
- Agglomerating,
- Massing,
- scare up,
- store up,
- bringing together,
- brought together,
- piled up,
- make a killing,
- brings together,
- cleaned up,
- cleaning up,
- cleans up,
- drawing together,
- draws together,
- drew together,
- heap together,
- heaped together,
- heaping together,
- heaps together,
- in corporate,
- in corporates,
- in crease,
- in creases,
- in creasing,
- in-corporate,
- in-corporates,
- in-crease,
- in-creased,
- in-creases,
- loaded up,
- loading up,
- loads up,
- made a bundle,
- made a killing,
- made bundle,
- made killing,
- make a bundle,
- make bundle,
- make killing,
- makes a bundle,
- makes a killing,
- makes bundle,
- makes killing,
- making a bundle,
- making a killing,
- making bundle,
- making killing,
- piles up,
- piling up,
- pro cure,
- pro cured,
- pro cures,
- pro curing,
- pro fit,
- pro fits,
- pro-cure,
- pro-cured,
- pro-cures,
- pro-curing,
- pro-fit,
- pro-fits,
- rolled up,
- rolling up,
- rolls up,
- scared up,
- scares up,
- scaring up,
- stacked up,
- stacking up,
- stacks up,
- stored up,
- stores up,
- storing up.
-
concentrate
- focalize,
- forgather,
- heap up,
- zero in,
- Focalized,
- Focalizing,
- Conglomerated,
- Conglomerating,
- forgathering,
- focalizes,
- forgathers,
- forgathered,
- gat to meat,
- gat to the meat,
- get meat,
- get the meat,
- get to the meat,
- gets meat,
- gets the meat,
- gets to meat,
- gets to the meat,
- getting meat,
- getting the meat,
- getting to meat,
- getting to the meat,
- got meat,
- got the meat,
- got to meat,
- got to the meat,
- gotten meat,
- gotten the meat,
- gotten to meat,
- heaped up,
- heaping up,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- zeroed in,
- zeroing in.
- cut back
-
gather
- bunch up,
- draw in,
- gang up,
- hang out,
- Thronging,
- scrape together,
- pour in,
- bunched up,
- bunches up,
- bunching up,
- close with,
- closed with,
- closes with,
- closing with,
- drawing in,
- draws in,
- drew in,
- ganged up,
- ganging up,
- gangs up,
- made scene,
- made the scene,
- make scene,
- make the scene,
- makes scene,
- makes the scene,
- making scene,
- poured in,
- pouring in,
- pours in,
- re unite,
- re united,
- re unites,
- re uniting,
- re-unite,
- re-united,
- re-unites,
- re-uniting,
- scraped together,
- scrapes together,
- scraping together.
- keep
-
maintain
- go with,
- keep going,
- go on with,
- goes on with,
- keeping going,
- keeps going,
- pro long,
- pro longing,
- pro longs,
- pro vide,
- pro vided,
- pro vides,
- pro viding,
- pro-long,
- pro-longed,
- pro-longing,
- pro-longs,
- pro-vide,
- pro-vided,
- pro-vides,
- pro-viding,
- re new,
- re news,
- re pair,
- re paired,
- re pairing,
- re pairs,
- re-new,
- re-news,
- re-pair,
- re-paired,
- re-pairing,
- re-pairs,
- went on with.
- pare
- reserve
- scrape
- skimp
-
stint
- penny-pinch,
- be stingy,
- am parsimonious,
- am stingy,
- are parsimonious,
- are stingy,
- art parsimonious,
- art stingy,
- be grudge,
- be grudged,
- be grudges,
- be grudging,
- be parsimonious,
- be-grudge,
- be-grudged,
- be-grudges,
- be-grudging,
- being parsimonious,
- being stingy,
- de fine,
- de fined,
- de fines,
- de fining,
- de-fine,
- de-fined,
- de-fines,
- de-fining,
- is parsimonious,
- is stingy,
- penny pinch,
- penny pinched,
- penny pinches,
- penny-pinched,
- penny-pinches,
- pennypinch,
- pennypinched,
- pennypinches,
- pennypinching,
- re strain,
- re strained,
- re straining,
- re strains,
- re-strain,
- re-strained,
- re-straining,
- re-strains,
- skimp on,
- skimped on,
- skimps on,
- was parsimonious,
- was stingy,
- wast parsimonious,
- were parsimonious,
- were stingy,
- wert parsimonious,
- wert stingy.
- stock
- cache
-
deposit
- plunk down,
- sit down,
- put aside,
- put by,
- stock up,
- de liver,
- de livered,
- de livering,
- de livers,
- de posit,
- de posited,
- de positing,
- de posits,
- de-liver,
- de-livered,
- de-livering,
- de-livers,
- de-posit,
- de-posited,
- de-positing,
- de-posits,
- gave in trust,
- gave trust,
- gives trust,
- giving in trust,
- giving trust,
- in stalled,
- in stalling,
- in vest,
- in vested,
- in vests,
- in-stall,
- in-stalled,
- in-stalling,
- in-vest,
- in-vested,
- in-vesting,
- in-vests,
- plunked down,
- plunking down,
- plunks down,
- re pose,
- re posed,
- re sting,
- re-pose,
- re-posed,
- re-sting,
- sat down,
- sate down,
- sits down,
- stocking up,
- stocks up.
- garner
- harvest
- heap
- hoard
-
obtain
- get hold of,
- gobble up,
- Copped,
- accessed,
- accessing,
- copping,
- make use of,
- beg borrow or steal,
- beg borrow steal,
- begged borrow or steal,
- begged borrow steal,
- begging borrow or steal,
- begging borrow steal,
- begs borrow or steal,
- begs borrow steal,
- gat hands on,
- gat hold of,
- gat one hands on,
- gat one's hands on,
- gat ones hands on,
- get hands on,
- get one hands on,
- get one's hands on,
- get ones hands on,
- gets hands on,
- gets hold of,
- gets one hands on,
- gets one's hands on,
- gets ones hands on,
- getting hands on,
- getting hold of,
- getting one hands on,
- gobbles up,
- gobbling up,
- got hold of,
- got one hands on,
- got one's hands on,
- got ones hands on,
- gotten hands on,
- gotten hold of,
- gotten one hands on,
- gotten one's hands on,
- makes use of,
- making use of,
- re ached,
- re aching,
- re cover,
- re covered,
- re covering,
- re-ached,
- re-aching,
- re-cover,
- re-covered,
- re-covering,
- re-covers,
- scraped up,
- scrapes up,
- scraping up.
- pile
-
save
- lay aside,
- set free,
- unchain,
- unchained,
- unshackled,
- Unshackle,
- setting free,
- sets free,
- unchains,
- unshackles,
- roll back,
- hide away,
- am thrifty,
- are thrifty,
- art thrifty,
- be thrifty,
- being thrifty,
- came rescue,
- came to rescue,
- come rescue,
- come to rescue,
- comes rescue,
- comes to rescue,
- coming rescue,
- coming to rescue,
- feather nest,
- feathered nest,
- feathering nest,
- feathers nest,
- gat off hook,
- gat off the hook,
- gat out hock,
- gat the hook,
- gave a break,
- gave break,
- get hook,
- get off the hook,
- get out hock,
- get out of hock,
- get the hook,
- gets hook,
- gets off hook,
- gets off the hook,
- gets out hock,
- gets out of hock,
- getting hook,
- getting off hook,
- getting off the hook,
- getting out hock,
- getting out of hock,
- getting the hook,
- give a break,
- give break,
- gives a break,
- giving a break,
- giving break,
- got hook,
- got off hook,
- got off the hook,
- got out hock,
- got out of hock,
- got the hook,
- gotten hook,
- gotten off hook,
- gotten off the hook,
- gotten out hock,
- gotten out of hock,
- gotten the hook,
- hid away,
- hided away,
- hides away,
- hiding away,
- is thrifty,
- laid aside,
- laying aside,
- lays aside,
- pulled out fire,
- pulled out of fire,
- pulling out fire,
- pulling out of fire,
- pulls out fire,
- pulls out of fire,
- re deem,
- re deemed,
- re deeming,
- re-deem,
- re-deeming,
- re-deems,
- rolled back,
- rolling back,
- rolls back,
- save for rainy day,
- save neck,
- save one neck,
- save one's neck,
- save ones neck,
- saved for rainy day,
- saved neck,
- saved one neck,
- saved one's neck,
- saved ones neck,
- saves for rainy day,
- saves neck,
- saves one neck,
- saves one's neck,
- saves ones neck,
- saving for rainy day,
- saving one neck,
- saving one's neck,
- saving ones neck,
- tighten belt,
- un chain,
- un chained,
- un chaining,
- un shackle,
- un shackled,
- un shackles,
- un shackling,
- un-chain,
- un-chaining,
- un-chains,
- un-shackling,
- was thrifty,
- wast thrifty,
- were thrifty,
- wert thrifty.
-
scrimp
- run a tight ship,
- am cheap,
- am economical,
- are cheap,
- are economical,
- art cheap,
- be cheap,
- be economical,
- being cheap,
- being economical,
- is economical,
- ran a tight ship,
- running a tight ship,
- was cheap,
- was economical,
- wast cheap,
- wast economical,
- were cheap,
- were economical,
- wert cheap,
- wert economical.
- gather or amass something
- hide a supply of something
- gather, collect
- save, protect
- locate, put in place for safekeeping
- preserve, immortalize
- collect, accumulate
- come or bring together
- gathering of produce
-
amass, collect in pile
- heap.
- put away, accumulate
-
hold, maintain
- keep.
- lay up/lay by
- care for, keep up
- get, acquire
-
peel, trim
- pare.
-
gather, pack; put on top of another
- pile.
- embalm
- care for, maintain; continue
- take care of; guard from harm
- keep, hold back
- scratch, remove outer layer
- be cheap or frugal about
- fritter away, use up
- economize; hold back
- supply with merchandise
- collect and put aside
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
stops in one's tracks
- Antonyms:
- bore, disenchant, disgust.
