gamble away

phrasal verb

gambled away; gambling away; gambles away
: to lose (something, such as money) by gambling
She gambled away her inheritance.
gambling the city's future away

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Lee is alleged to have gambled away a lot of the money. Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2025 The confusion stemmed from the bank being given both a floppy disk of information and a paper request form – but by the time authorities realized their error, the man had already gambled away most of the funds, according to NHK. Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025 Both Fu and Ma worried publicly that TSMC - and Taiwan's government, which owns the largest stake in the company - could end up gambling away that advantage. Ashish Valentine, NPR, 12 Mar. 2025 Angela Craig had complained to her sister that her husband had recently gambled away more than $2,000 on a trip to Las Vegas. Stepheny Price, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2024 One of his fellow temporary cellmates is in trouble for gambling away millions in government energy contracts, so Dwight calmly gives the guy advice in advance of a likely multiple-year sentence. Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Sep. 2024 Meanwhile, it was revealed that Zac was gambling away his anxieties, a practice looked down upon in the Church. Henry Chandonnet, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2024 And over the years, the free-spirited golfer has made headlines for everything from allegedly gambling away about $55 million to setting up a college fund with his winnings from the 1991 PGA Championship for the daughters of a spectator struck dead by lightning at the event. Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024 To do that, Matty reinvents herself as an older lawyer whose dead no-good husband gambled away their money, forcing her to dust off her law degree to support herself and her teen grandson. Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Gamble away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamble%20away. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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