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/dˈɪsəpˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

dissipate v. t. (past & past part. dissipated; pres. part. dissipating)

To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. "Dissipated those foggy mists of error." "I soon dissipated his fears." "The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy."

To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. "The vast wealth... was in three years dissipated."

Synonyms: To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish.

Dissipate v. i.

To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.

To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.

adjective

Dissipated adj.

Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth."

Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. "A life irregular and dissipated."

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"Dissipated" Quotes from Famous Books

... unexperienced auditors the gloomy embarrassment of Red Jim was soon dissipated, although it could hardly be said that he was generally communicative. Dark tales of Indian warfare, of night attacks and wild stampedes, in which he had always taken a prominent part, flowed freely ...

— Susy, A Story of the Plains • Bret Harte

... Regent would continue Mr. Pitt and his friends in office was rapidly dissipated during the progress of these discussions. The Household Bill, alluded to in one of Mr. Grenville's letters, gave deep offence to His Royal Highness; and from the moment that part of the plan was disclosed, there was no longer any disguise ...

— Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) - From the Original Family Documents • The Duke of Buckingham

... pale hour when the mist, not yet dissipated by the rising sun, lay in a cold, silver veil upon the night-chilled water, he pushed out from the shore and pointed the sampan's prow downstream. Days it took him to reach salt water. He loitered for light cargoes at village edges, or picked up the price of his daily rice ...

— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various

... they are, rather than duels—take place at the Hirschgasse, a lonely hotel on the other side of the Neckar. The fighting and dissipated students form themselves into clubs, called 'chores,' among which a great deal of jealousy and ill feeling prevails. The fights are to avenge insults, to 'see who is the best fellow,' or between representatives of different chores, who battle for the ...

— Down the Rhine - Young America in Germany • Oliver Optic

... the moral and personal to the menial characteristics of Mr. Johnson's speeches, we find that his brain is to be classed with notable cases of arrested development. He has strong forces in his nature, but in their outlet through his mind they are dissipated into a confusing clutter of unrelated thoughts and inapplicable phrases. He seems to possess neither the power nor the perception of coherent thinking and logical arrangement. He does not appear to be aware that prepossessions are not proofs, that assertions ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various

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