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Learn to pronounce dis·si·pate

/ˈdisəˌpāt/
verb
  1. (with reference to a feeling or other intangible thing) disappear or cause to disappear.
    "the concern she'd felt for him had wholly dissipated"
    synonyms: disappear, vanish, evaporate, dissolve, melt away, melt into thin air, be dispelled, dematerialize, disperse, scatter, drive away, dispel, banish, quell, allay, check, evanesce
  2. squander or fritter away (money, energy, or resources).
    "he had dissipated his entire fortune"
    synonyms: squander, fritter (away), misspend, waste, throw away, make poor use of, be prodigal with, spend recklessly/freely, lavish, expend, spend like water, throw around like confetti, exhaust, drain, deplete, burn (up), use up, consume, run through, go through, lose, blow, splurge, pour/throw down the drain, blue, piss away

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6 days ago · disperse implies a wider separation and a complete breaking up of a mass or group. police dispersed the crowd.
to (cause to) gradually disappear or waste: The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere. His anger dissipated as the situation became clear. SMART ...
to spend or use wastefully or extravagantly; squander; deplete: to dissipate one's talents; to dissipate a fortune on high living.
adjective. dis·​si·​pat·​ed ˈdi-sə-ˌpā-təd. Synonyms of dissipated. : given to or marked by dissipation : dissolute. dissipatedly adverb.
To dissipate is to disperse or fade away — as a bad smell will dissipate (usually) if you wait long enough.
dissipate in American English · 1. to break up and scatter; dispel; disperse · 2. to drive completely away; make disappear · 3. to waste or squander. verb ...
DISSIPATE meaning: 1 : to cause (something) to spread out and disappear; 2 : to separate into parts and disappear or go away often used figuratively.
May 15, 2024 · DISSIPATED meaning: 1. spending too much time enjoying physical pleasures and harmful activities such as drinking a lot…. Learn more.
indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute.
1[intransitive, transitive] to gradually become or make something become weaker until it disappears Eventually, his anger dissipated. dissipate something ...
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