Definition: expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
Usage: He was showered with praise
Similar words: consume, squander, waste, ware
Definition: spend extravagantly
Usage: waste not, want not
Synonyms: lavish, overgenerous, munificent, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
Definition: very generous
Usage: distributed gifts with a lavish hand; the critics were lavish in their praise; a munificent gift; his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent; prodigal praise; unsparing generosity; his unstinted devotion; called for unstinting aid to Britain
Synonyms: lucullan, lush, lavish, plush, plushy
Definition: characterized by extravagance and profusion
Usage: a lavish buffet; a lucullan feast