splurge Definition
☆ splurge (splʉrj)
noun
- any very showy display or effort
- a spell of extravagant spending
Etymology: echoic blend of spl(ash) + (s)urge
intransitive verb splurged, splurg′·ing
- to make a splurge; show off
- to spend money extravagantly
splurge Related Forms
splurge* Synonyms
splurge Usage Examples
Object
money: Kidnapping the rich businessman who they had seen splurging money in a dance bar seemed like the best plan.
Converse of object
have: I keep hoping the boys and S will use up some more beads so I can have a splurge.
Adjective modifier
- occasional: You should become less obsessed about or even frightened of the occasional splurge.
- necessary: For some, the dress is a necessary splurge while others focus their money into creating a memorable dining and entertainment experience.
- great: Margaret and I got married at last, and her parents gave us a great splurge at the Randolph Hotel in Oxford.
- big: I will not be trying to recap the last few months in a big splurge.
- sudden: SEO's in overdrive A sudden splurge in the telesales merchants promising the earth.. .
- initial: Out of this initial splurge of spontaneous organizing arose the FWCUI.
Modifies a noun
gun: Had they been filled with their intended beverage, they would have been a hundred times more lethal than any splurge gun.
Modifying Another Word
- n't: Milan and Madrid maybe but they still have to have the odd year where they do n't splurge.
- never: But he never splurges - the control comes from his hard-won mastery of forms.
Noun used with modifier
- spending: Be that as it may Abramovich made huge funds available for new players; a spending splurge which exceeded £ 100 million.
- shopping: The Pakistani regime also has gone about on an arms shopping splurge.
- year: I hope you're all well & are recovering from the New Year splurge.
Preposition: of
activity: Sudden splurges of activity after long periods as a couch potato are better than nothing but far from ideal.
Followed by an intransitive particle
out: Songs like Daylight, The Whisper and The Scientist splurged out over two weeks, and we recorded them very quickly.
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