lavished

• be generous
• be wasteful
• blew
• bombarded
• consumed
• deluge
• depleted
• disbursed
• dissipate
• dissipated
• exhausted
• expend
• expended
• fiddled away
• flooded
• fritter
• give
• go through
• gushed
• hailed
• heap
• heaped
• impoverished
• indulged
• inundated
• laid out
• lost
• made ducks and drakes of
• misspent
• overflowed
• overindulged
• overspent
• overwhelmed
• played ducks and drakes with
• pour
• poured
• rained
• ran through
• run through
• scatter
• shot
• showered
• spend
• spend money like water
• spent
• splurged
• squander
• squandered
• streamed
• swamped
• threw away
• thrust upon
• waste
• wasted

• collect
• conserved
• economize
• economized
• gather
• held back
• hoard
• hoarded
• hold
• kept
• laid up
• limit
• preserved
• protected
• reserved
• retained
• save
• saved
• scrimped
• skimped
• starve
• withheld

• verb
  1. To give out extremely generously; to squander.
  2. To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.

• She lavished her attention on the children during their visit.
• The host lavished guests with exquisite food and drinks.
• They lavished praise on the young artist after her performance.
• He lavished money on luxury goods, never thinking twice about the cost.
• After years of hard work, she was lavished with rewards and recognition.

absorbed

• abated
• abided
• abode
• accepted
• acculturated
• accustomed
• acquiesced
• alert
• alive
• all ears
• allowed
• allured
• amalgamated
• assimilated
• ate
• attentive
• attracted
• bankrupted
• beguiled
• bemused
• bewitched
• bided
• blended
• blent
• blew
• bode
• bore
• brooked
• burned
• burnt
• busied
• capitulated
• captivated
• caught up
• charmed
• co-opted
• combined
• commingled
• conditioned
• conscious
• consumed
• countenanced
• crippled
• de-escalated
• debilitated
• decreased
• deep
• deep in thought
• depleted
• devoured
• diminished
• disabled
• dissipated
• distracted
• downsized
• drained
• drank
• drew down
• dried up
• dwindled
• embodied
• emptied
• enchanted
• enculturated
• endured
• enfeebled
• engaged
• engrossed
• enthralled
• enwrapped
• exhausted
• expended
• fascinated
• fixed
• focused
• focussed
• fused
• gone
• gripped
• gulped
• guzzled
• habituated
• hacked
• handled
• held
• hogged
• hypnotized
• imbibed
• immersed
• impoverished
• incorporated
• integrated
• intent
• interested
• intermingled
• intrigued
• involved
• lavished
• lessened
• lived with
• lost
• lowered
• merged
• mesmerized
• met
• mingled
• misspent
• monopolized
• naturalized
• observant
• obsessed
• occupied
• open-eyed
• permitted
• played out
• pocketed
• preoccupied
• quaffed
• ran out of
• ran through
• rapt
• really into
• reduced
• respected
• sapped
• sipped
• slurped
• spent
• sponged
• squandered
• stomached
• stood
• stood for
• stuck out
• suffered
• supported
• sustained
• swallowed
• sweat out
• sweated out
• swigged
• swilled
• threw away
• tolerated
• took
• took up
• toughed it out
• undermined
• up to here
• used
• used up
• wasted
• watchful
• weakened
• went
• wide-awake
• wore
• wrapped-up

gave

• accord
• acted
• address
• addressed
• administer
• administered
• advanced
• advertised
• afforded
• aided
• air
• aired
• allocated
• allow
• announce
• announced
• ante up
• applied
• apply
• apportioned
• assigned
• assisted
• award
• awarded
• be a source of
• bend
• benefited
• benefitted
• bent
• bequeath
• bequeathed
• bestow
• bestowed
• blew
• bore
• bow to
• break
• broadcast
• broadcasted
• broke
• broke down
• brought in
• buckle down
• buckled
• burst
• bursted
• busied
• came out with
• carried
• carried on
• carry
• cause
• cave
• cede
• ceded
• chimed in
• chipped in
• circulated
• collapsed
• come across
• commended
• commit
• committed
• communicated
• comped
• concede
• concerned
• conducted
• confer
• conferred
• confided
• consign
• consigned
• contaminated
• contract
• contributed
• convey
• conveyed
• cracked
• crashed
• crumble
• crumbled
• crumple
• crumpled
• declared
• deed
• deeded
• deflated
• delegated
• deliver
• delivered
• depicted
• described
• devote
• devoted
• died
• diffused
• direct
• disbursed
• dish out
• dished out
• dispense
• dispensed
• dispersed
• display
• displayed
• dispose of
• disseminated
• dissipated
• distributed
• divided
• do
• dole out
• doled out
• donate
• donated
• dramatized
• dropped
• emit
• enacted
• endow
• endowed
• endued
• engaged
• engender
• enounced
• entrust
• entrusted
• enunciated
• evidence
• exerted
• exhausted
• exhibited
• expended
• exposed
• expounded
• express
• expressed
• extend
• extended
• fail
• failed
• fall
• fed
• flattened
• flex
• fold
• fold up
• fork over
• foundered
• furnish
• furnished
• gave air to
• gave away
• gave in
• gave of
• gave out
• gave over
• gave way
• gift
• give way
• go
• got cracking
• got with it
• grant
• granted
• ground
• hand down
• hand out
• hand over
• handed
• handed down
• handed in
• handed on
• handed out
• handed over
• heap upon
• held out
• helped
• hold out
• humped
• hustled
• impart
• imparted
• impersonated
• imploded
• indicate
• indued
• infected
• intrusted
• involved
• issue
• issued
• kicked in
• knuckled down
• laid out
• lavish upon
• lavished
• lay upon
• lead
• lease
• left
• lend
• lent
• let have
• loaned
• looked
• made over
• make
• make over
• manifest
• melted
• melted down
• minister
• mounted
• netted
• notify
• occasion
• offer
• offered
• open
• outlaid
• paid
• paid off
• paraded
• parcel out
• part with
• pass down
• pass out
• passed
• performed
• permit
• pitched in
• played
• plodded
• plowed
• poisoned
• pony up
• popped
• portioned
• portrayed
• pose
• posed
• present
• presented
• previewed
• proclaimed
• produce
• proffered
• pronounce
• propagated
• proposed
• prorated
• provide
• provided
• publish
• published
• put
• put across
• put forth
• put on
• put out
• put over
• put up
• rained
• raised
• ran by
• ran past
• ran through
• read
• readdressed
• reapplied
• recede
• recommended
• recommitted
• redelivered
• regaled
• relax
• released
• relent
• relinquish
• relinquished
• remit
• render
• rendered
• reposed
• represented
• retire
• retransferred
• retransmitted
• retreat
• return
• returned
• sacrificed
• sag
• said
• sell
• set forth
• shattered
• shell out
• shelled out
• show
• showed
• showed off
• shrink
• sink
• slacken
• smashed
• snapped
• sounded
• sounded off
• spent
• splintered
• split
• spoke out
• spoke up
• spread
• squandered
• staged
• stalled
• state
• stated
• strained
• stressed
• submitted
• subsidize
• supplied
• supply
• surrender
• surrendered
• taxed
• tender
• tendered
• threw away
• threw in
• throw
• throw in
• tip
• transfer
• transferred
• transfused
• transmit
• transmitted
• trotted out
• troubled
• trusted
• tumbled
• turn
• turn over
• turned a hand
• turned in
• turned over
• unveiled
• utter
• vent
• vented
• ventilate
• ventilated
• vested
• voiced
• volunteered
• vouchsafe
• wasted
• weaken
• went
• went out
• will
• willed
• wore out
• worked
• wrote
• wrote up
• wrought
• yield
• yielded

gave away

• administered
• advertised
• afforded
• aided
• aired
• announced
• assisted
• award
• awarded
• bared
• benefited
• benefitted
• bespoke
• bestow
• bestowed
• betray
• betrayed
• blab
• blazed
• broadcast
• broadcasted
• chipped in
• communicated
• comped
• conferred
• contributed
• declared
• demonstrated
• devote
• disclose
• disclosed
• discover
• dished out
• dispensed
• displayed
• divulge
• doled out
• donate
• donated
• endowed
• endued
• evinced
• expose
• exposed
• extended
• furnished
• gave
• gave of
• hand out
• handed out
• helped
• imparted
• indued
• inform
• issued
• kicked in
• lavished
• leak
• let out
• let slip
• manifested
• mouth
• offered
• paid
• pitched in
• placarded
• present
• presented
• proclaimed
• proffered
• projected
• provided
• publicized
• put up
• regaled
• rendered
• revealed
• sacrificed
• showed
• sounded
• spill
• tell
• tendered
• threw in
• trumpeted
• unbosomed
• uncloaked
• uncover
• uncovered
• volunteered

gave of

• administered
• afforded
• aided
• assisted
• awarded
• benefited
• benefitted
• bestowed
• chipped in
• comped
• conferred
• contributed
• dished out
• dispensed
• doled out
• donated
• endowed
• endued
• extended
• furnished
• gave
• gave away
• handed out
• helped
• imparted
• indued
• issued
• kicked in
• lavished
• offered
• paid
• pitched in
• presented
• proffered
• provided
• put up
• regaled
• rendered
• sacrificed
• tendered
• threw in
• volunteered

laid out

• advertised
• advised
• aforethought
• aimed
• aired
• aligned
• alined
• alphabetized
• announced
• arrange
• arranged
• arrayed
• bared
• blazed
• blew
• blueprinted
• brandished
• broadcast
• broadcasted
• budgeted
• calculated
• chart
• charted
• choreographed
• classified
• codified
• concerted
• conscious
• considered
• conspired
• contemplated
• contrived
• cued
• deliberate
• delineated
• demonstrated
• designed
• devised
• diagram
• disburse
• disbursed
• discovered
• display
• displayed
• disported
• disposed
• dissipated
• divulged
• drafted
• drew up
• dropped
• emplaced
• exhibit
• exhibited
• expend
• expended
• exposed
• figured
• filed
• fixed
• flashed
• flaunted
• flourished
• framed
• framed up
• gave
• give
• got up
• groomed
• had on
• heralded
• hierarchized
• intended
• intentional
• intrigued
• invest
• lavished
• lend
• lined
• lined up
• machinated
• made up
• map
• marshaled
• marshalled
• meant
• meditated
• on display
• on view
• ordered
• organized
• outlaid
• outlay
• outline
• outlined
• paid
• paraded
• pay
• placarded
• placed
• planned
• plotted
• posted
• premeditated
• prepared
• prepense
• presented
• prioritized
• proclaimed
• produced
• projected
• publicized
• purposed
• put out
• put up
• queued
• rained
• ran through
• ranged
• revealed
• rigged
• sequenced
• set
• set out
• set-up
• sewn-up
• shaped
• shell out
• shelled out
• showed
• showed off
• shown
• sketched
• sounded
• spent
• sported
• spread out
• spread-out
• squandered
• stacked deck
• strutted
• studied
• systematized
• thought-out
• threw away
• trumpeted
• uncloaked
• uncovered
• unmasked
• unscrambled
• unveiled
• visible
• wasted
• waved
• willful

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