Synonyms of the word splurge


SPLURGEBINGE - CONSUME - FANFARE - FLASH - FLAUNT - FLING - HUMORING - INDULGENCE - INDULGING - ORGY - OSTENTATE - OSTENTATION - PAMPERING - SQUANDER - SWANK - WARE - WASTE

splurge

  • v. (informal) To gush, to flow or move in a rush.
  • v. (colloquial) To spend lavishly or extravagantly, especially money.
  • n. An extravagant or ostentatious display.
  • n. An extravagant indulgence; a spending spree.

binge

  • n. A short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.
  • n. (eating disorder) A rapid and excessive consumption of food.
  • v. To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.

consume

  • v. (transitive) To use up.
  • v. (transitive) To use (without using up).
  • v. (transitive) To eat.
  • v. (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
  • v. (transitive) To destroy completely.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.

fanfare

  • n. (countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting…
  • n. (uncountable) A show of ceremony or celebration.
  • v. To play a fanfare.
  • v. (music) To embellish with fanfares.
  • v. To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.
  • v. To introduce with pomp and show.
  • v. To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.
  • v. To publicize or announce.
  • v. To fan out.

flash

  • v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
  • v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
  • v. To be visible briefly.
  • v. To make visible briefly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
  • v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
  • v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
  • v. To communicate quickly.
  • v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
  • v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
  • v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
  • v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
  • v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
  • v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
  • v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
  • v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
  • n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
  • n. A very short amount of time.
  • n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
  • n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
  • n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
  • n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
  • n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
  • n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
  • n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
  • n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
  • adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
  • adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
  • adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
  • adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
  • n. A pool.
  • n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

flaunt

  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
  • v. (transitive) To parade, display with ostentation.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic or literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.
  • v. To flout.

fling

  • n. An act of throwing, often violently.
  • n. An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
  • n. An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
  • n. A short, often sexual, relationship.
  • n. (figuratively) An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling").
  • n. (obsolete) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
  • n. A kind of dance.
  • n. (obsolete) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
  • v. (transitive) To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To throw oneself in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence…
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To throw; to wince; to flounce.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To utter abusive language; to sneer.

humoring

  • v. present participle of humor.

indulgence

  • n. the act of indulging.
  • n. tolerance.
  • n. catering to someone's every desire.
  • n. something in which someone indulges.
  • n. An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
  • n. (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner…
  • v. (transitive) (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence.

indulging

  • v. present participle of indulge.

orgy

  • n. A revel involving indiscriminate group sexual activity.
  • n. Excessive indulgence in a specified activity.

ostentate

  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.

ostentation

  • n. Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
  • n. (obsolete) A show or spectacle.

pampering

  • v. present participle of pamper.
  • n. The act by which somebody is pampered.

squander

  • v. To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
  • v. (obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
  • v. (obsolete) To wander at random; to scatter.

swank

  • adj. (dated) Fashionably elegant.
  • n. A fashionably elegant person.
  • n. Ostentation; bravado.
  • v. To swagger, to show off.

ware

  • adj. (poetic) aware.
  • n. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
  • n. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
  • n. (in the plural) See wares.
  • n. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
  • n. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
  • n. (Ireland) Crockery.
  • v. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
  • v. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
  • adj. (obsolete) wary; cautious.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) seaweed.
  • v. (nautical) To wear, or veer.

waste

  • n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
  • n. Excrement or urine.
  • n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
  • n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
  • n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
  • n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
  • n. A vast expanse of water.
  • n. A disused mine or part of one.
  • n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
  • n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
  • n. Gradual loss or decay.
  • n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
  • n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
  • n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
  • n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
  • adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
  • adj. Barren; desert.
  • adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
  • adj. Superfluous; needless.
  • adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
  • adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
  • v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
  • v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
  • v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
  • v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
  • v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
  • v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…

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