Dissipate
['dɪsɪpeɪt] or ['dɪsɪpet]
Definition
(verb.) live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption.
Typed by Carlyle--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.
(v. t.) To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.
(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.
(v. i.) To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.
Typist: Merritt
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Disperse, dispel, scatter, drive away.[2]. Waste, squander, lavish, spend lavishly, run out, throw away.
v. n. [1]. Vanish, disappear, scatter, disperse.[2]. Live dissolutely, practise dissipation, be dissolute.
Typed by Kate
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SQUANDER]
Typed by Claus
Definition
v.t. to scatter: to squander: to waste.—v.i. to separate and disappear: to waste away: (coll.) to be dissolute in conduct.—adj. Diss′ipable that may be dissipated.—p.adj. Diss′ipated dissolute esp. addicted to drinking.—n. Dissipā′tion dispersion: state of being dispersed: scattered attention: a dissolute course of life esp. hard drinking.—adj. Diss′ipative tending to dissipate or disperse: connected with the dissipation of energy.
Typist: Shelby
Examples
- She has made an impression on me that does not dissipate. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It seems somewhat too broad for its height, but may be familiarity with it might dissipate this impression. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In vain I shewed him, that when winter came, the cold would dissipate the pestilential air, and restore courage to the Greeks. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But it is this gloom, which appears to have taken so strong a hold of your mind, that I wish to dissipate. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom, and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- All my old feelings of hostility towards him revived on the instant, and all the hours that have passed since have done nothing to dissipate them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The sadness will dissipate as the sun rises. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The better the gun is, the less will be the energy dissipated in smoke and heat and noise. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The Colonel had dissipated the greater part of his fortune in his chemical investigations. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In those few weeks he had frightfully dissipated his little capital. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He eschewed gloves, and looked, upon the whole, something like a dissipated Robinson Crusoe. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The fire was not dissipated yet, and she thought it was ignoble in her husband not to apologize to her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His character is now before you; expensive, dissipated, and worse than both. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It is dispersive, centrifugal, dissipating. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It's not so much that, Mr. Weller,' replied Mr. John Smauker, 'as bad wine; I'm afraid I've been dissipating. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Thus the sun, shining on a morning fog, dissipates it; clouds are seen to waste in a sunshiny day. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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