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UK
/dˈɪsɪpˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈdɪsəˌpeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪsəˌpeɪt/ ]
VERB
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to cause to separate and go in different directions
She waved her hand and scattered the crowds -
move away from each other
The crowds dispersed
The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached - live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
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spend frivolously and unwisely
Fritter away one's inheritance
How To Use dissipate In A Sentence
- If gold was really to be demonetized, then the enormous stocks relative to flows would have to be dissipated first through consumption.
- Slow simmering retains the alcohol; fast boiling dissipates it.
- Such a mixing of configurations is present in proteins, where the energy of the excited state is dissipated among many conformational substates.
- Another story was that a certain dissipated youth of the community, going home one Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, from some unhallowed orgy, was pursued by a lamb of fire, with its head cut off and hanging by a strip of skin or flame. The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
- That sinking feeling we'd experienced as we watched the snow fall when it was supposed to be melting dissipated.
- In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
- It meant resisting the temptation to chase off after secondary objectives and, in the process, dissipate resources.
- Whereas resistive potential dividers dissipate electrical power, capacitive dividers do not.
- Close to, the illusion of glowing feyness dissipated.
- Flynn was still handsome, though dissipated.
