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profligate

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Adjective

  1. Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
  2. Immoral; abandoned to vice.
  3. Profligated: routed, overcome, driven away.
  4. Overthrown, ruined.

Noun

  1. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
  2. An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.

Verb

  1. To drive away; to overcome.

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