splurged

verb

Definition of splurgednext
past tense of splurge
as in consumed
informal to spend more money than usual on something for yourself You should let yourself splurge once in a while.

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  1. consumed
  2. lost
  3. exhausted
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  • YouTube just released some new stats that show how the service is being consumed on televisions, and the numbers are enormous.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The report added that other members of the child’s family had consumed smaller amounts of the same raw milk with their coffee, but all of them tested negative for influenza.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of consumed
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  • Even Major League Baseball had a McDonald’s subplot this year, when Grimace became the lucky charm who (briefly) gave the Mets hope for a world championship and New Yorkers hope for a Subway Series (but then the Mets lost to the Dodgers in the playoffs, of course).
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The Bucks lost in last season’s semifinals to the Indiana Pacers, a memory that was fresh in the mind of Lillard.
    Kevin Dotson, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of lost
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  • In that way, McDonald’s became a kind of scapegoat for people who were exhausted of stretching their budgets to afford food and suspecting (not without reason) that corporate greed was at least partly to blame.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Because the Syrian army is exhausted and no longer has the courage to fight alone.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of exhausted
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