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adjective
- 1. (of a person or way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures: "dissipated behaviour"
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to disappear gradually, or to cause something to disappear gradually: [ T ] It took months of effort to dissipate the oil spill in the North Sea. dissipation. noun [ U ] us / ˌdɪs·əˈpeɪ·ʃən / (Definition of dissipate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
1. : to break up and scatter or vanish. The clouds dissipated and the sun came out. The team's early momentum has dissipated. 2. : to be extravagant or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure. especially : to drink to excess. his extended dissipating of the night before. dissipater noun. Synonyms. clear out. disband.
DISSIPATED definition: 1. spending too much time enjoying physical pleasures and harmful activities such as drinking a lot…. Learn more.
verb (used with object) , dis·si·pat·ed, dis·si·pat·ing. to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel. Antonyms: unite. to spend or use wastefully or extravagantly; squander; deplete: to dissipate one's talents; to dissipate a fortune on high living.
: given to or marked by dissipation : dissolute. dissipatedly adverb. dissipatedness noun. Synonyms. corrupt. debased. debauched. decadent. degenerate. degraded. demoralized. depraved. dissolute. jackleg. libertine. loose. perverse. perverted. rakehelly. rakish. reprobate. sick. unclean. unwholesome. warped. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus
to disappear gradually, or to cause something to disappear gradually: [ T ] It took months of effort to dissipate the oil spill in the North Sea. dissipation. noun [ U ] us / ˌdɪs·əˈpeɪ·ʃən / (Definition of dissipate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Dissipated definition: indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute.. See examples of DISSIPATED used in a sentence.
To dissipate is to disperse or fade away — as a bad smell will dissipate (usually) if you wait long enough. Dissipate can also mean “spend or use wastefully.”. If you win the lottery, you might suddenly find yourself with a group of new friends encouraging you to dissipate your money (on them).
[transitive] dissipate something to waste something, such as time or money, especially by not planning the best way of using it synonym squander. She was determined to achieve results and not to dissipate her energies. Word Origin.
Definition of 'dissipate' Word Frequency. dissipate. (dɪsɪpeɪt ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense dissipates , present participle dissipating , past tense, past participle dissipated. 1. verb. When something dissipates or when you dissipate it, it becomes less or becomes less strong until it disappears or goes away completely. [formal]
