FIDDLE AWAY Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

fiddle away

verb

Definition of fiddle away

as in to spend

to use up carelessly fiddled away the entire evening surfing the Internet

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Recent Examples of fiddle away Her positive pablum came too late to stop critics from casting her as a modern-day Nero, the emperor who supposedly fiddled away as Rome burned. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025

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Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Power of Habit, which spent over three years on bestseller lists and has been translated into 40 languages, and Smarter Faster Better, also a bestseller.

— Big Think, Big Think, 2 Aug. 2026
Syeda Sultana, chief operating officer at the digital marketing platform Vettted, spent a decade managing a global sustainability program.

— Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of spend

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As team president Mark Donovan put it on Wednesday while speaking at the opening of training camp at Missouri Western, the focus forward began almost instantly after the Chiefs lost their season finale to the Raiders in Las Vegas.

— Vahe Gregorian July 31, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
Lipow estimates the world has lost about 6 million to 7 million barrels of refining capacity per day, making existing refineries even more profitable.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 31 July 2026

Definition of lose

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On July 24, the DGA said the engine ran for a total of seven minutes and proved it could be reused after several firings, rather than being thrown away after just one use.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
And with an elementary school a stone’s throw away on Overland Avenue, parents worried that the already accident-prone intersection would become more unsafe and polluted.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026

Definition of throw away

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My mind turned invasive species mode and was running through the rainforest, trying not to get caught.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 1 Aug. 2026
The UMusic Shop Takeover On release weekend, UMusic Shop NY at 2 Penn Plaza became the physical center of the campaign with a three-day interactive takeover running through August 2.

— Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of run through

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