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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Palenske spent 39 years in the Air Force, retiring in 2025 as a brigadier general in Guam.

— Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
Presidential vacations—or, where the presidents spend summers—are not vacations in the traditional sense of the term, but rather, a physical getaway from the White House in a scenic setting, usually accompanied by their families.

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 26 July 2026

Definition of spend

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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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In mid-July, an OpenAI model being run through an internal cyber-capability benchmark broke out of its containment, chained together a zero-day exploit and stolen credentials, and compromised Hugging Face's infrastructure.

— Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
Klopp replaces Nagelsmann, who oversaw a disappointing World Cup round-of-32 exit to Paraguay this summer, on a deal to 2030 — running through the 2028 European Championship and the World Cup two years later.

— Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 24 July 2026

Definition of run through

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