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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dissipate \Dis"si*pate\, v. i. 1. 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. 2. To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dissipate \Dis"si*pate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dissipated}; p. pr & vb n. {Dissipating}.] [L. dissipatus p. p. of dissipare; dis- + an obsolete verb sipare, supare. to throw.] 1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. --Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. --Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. --Hazlitt. 2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use to squander. The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. --Bp. Burnet. Syn: To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dissipate v 1: to cause to separate and go in different directions, of crowds, for example; "She waved her hand and scattered the crows." [syn: {disperse}, {dispel}, {break up}, {scatter}] 2: move away from each other "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"; [syn: {disperse}, {scatter}, {spread out}] 3: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: {fritter}, {frivol away}, {shoot}, {fritter away}, {fool}, {fool away}]
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