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adjective
- 1. (of a person or way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures: "dissipated behaviour"
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a. : to break up and drive off. dissipate a crowd. b. : to cause to spread thin or scatter and gradually vanish. one's sympathy is eventually dissipated Andrew Feinberg. c. physics : to lose (heat, electricity, etc.) irrecoverably. 2. : to spend or use up wastefully or foolishly. dissipated the family fortune in reckless business ventures.
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: 1. spending too much time enjoying physical pleasures and harmful activities such as drinking a lot…. Learn more.
: 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.
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.
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.
