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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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Etymology of 'Dissipated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dissipated" Quotes from Famous Books

... them one after another with his eyes, and one after another they quailed. All their plottings, their threats, their dangerousness dissipated like mist before the command of this one resolute man. These pirates who had seemed so dreadful to me, now were nothing more than ...

— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

... put up with the idea that Beatrice should have permission given to come to her—just for once. She hardly wished to be seen by permission. Nevertheless, she did not refuse the proffered visit, and the first sight of Beatrice's face, the first touch of the first embrace, dissipated for the moment all ...

— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope

... standing round the Heart in a Circle, it gave a most prodigious Sigh or rather Crack, and dispersed all at once in Smoke and Vapour. This imaginary Noise, which methought was louder than the burst of a Cannon, produced such a violent Shake in my Brain, that it dissipated the Fumes of Sleep, and left me in an ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... that the man in the landau has been the ruin of thousands and you mention people whom he himself knows, people in various grades of life, widows and orphans amongst them, whose little all has been dissipated, and whom he has reduced to beggary by inducing them to become sharers in his delusive schemes. But the mechanic says, "Well, the more fools they to let themselves be robbed. But I don't call that ...

— The Romany Rye • George Borrow

... marry him as soon as ever he asks you, and think yourself a very lucky young lady into the bargain. He has a character such as not one man in fifty can produce. He is rich, liberal without being extravagant, never plays, is by no means dissipated, and in all respects is a man of honour, ability, and character; such is what I have learned from a quarter where there can ...

— Valerie • Frederick Marryat

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