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Definition of Dissipate
1. Verb. To cause to separate and go in different directions. "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
Specialized synonyms: Disband
Generic synonyms: Divide, Separate
Derivative terms: Dispersion, Dissipation, Scatter, Scatter, Scattering, Scattering
2. Verb. Move away from each other. "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"
Specialized synonyms: Aerosolise, Aerosolize, Break, Volley
Generic synonyms: Part, Separate, Split
Derivative terms: Dispersion, Dissipation, Scatter, Scatter, Scattering
3. Verb. Spend frivolously and unwisely. "Fritter away one's inheritance"
Entails: Consume, Deplete, Eat, Eat Up, Exhaust, Run Through, Use Up, Wipe Out
Generic synonyms: Consume, Squander, Ware, Waste
Derivative terms: Dissipation
4. Verb. Live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption.
Definition of Dissipate
1. 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.
2. 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.
Definition of Dissipate
1. Verb. To drive away, disperse. ¹
2. Verb. To use up or waste. ¹
3. Verb. To vanish by dispersion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dissipate
1. [v -PATED, -PATING, -PATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissipate
Literary usage of Dissipate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"Glass, therefore, we may still consider as a substance upon which the fire has
no other effect than either to melt or dissipate it in vapour.' Vol.iii. p. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"... the cause of the proposed council at Mantua; to dissipate the opposition that
had been roused against the choice of that place; and to inform the Curia ..."
3. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"... an obvious tendency to preserve that spirit of factious attachments and
animosities which it is the general policy of a wise government to dissipate. ..."
4. The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.: With a View of the by William Robertson (1809)
"sence, he might dissipate the clouds which wer« 1516' gathering all over the
kingdom*. persuaded . , . pt •' i • Charles CHARLES was fully sensible that he ..."
5. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1858)
"Hence the reason why points, connected with an electrified conductor, dissipate
the fluid so rapidly. The limited extent of this work, does not permit us to ..."
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