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1 definition found 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.
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