misspend

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: mis=spend

CIDE DICTIONARY

misspend, v. t. 

 To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to squander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.  J. Philips.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

misspend, v.tr. (past and past part. -spent) (esp. as misspent adj.) spend amiss or wastefully.

ROGET THESAURUS

misspend

Prodigality

VB be prodigal, squander, lavish, sow broadcast, pour forth like water, blow, blow in, pay through the nose, spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable, run out, run through, misspend, throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet, burn the candle at both ends, make ducks and drakes of one's money, fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money, pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, manger son ble en herbe.