slattern away verb1 •(old-fashioned) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste.October 30, 1755 Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, The World I have known many a passion and many a friendship degraded, weakened, and at last, if I may use the expression, wholly slatterned away, by an unguarded and illiberal familiarity. formsslatterned away · slatterning away · slatterns away