dissipate

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dissipate

The morning fog begins to dissipate over the lake.

Definition

  1. Verb (Transitive):

    • To cause to disperse or vanish: To make something, such as a crowd, fog, or energy, scatter or disappear.
    • To waste or squander: To spend or use resources, such as money, time, or energy, in a foolish or wasteful manner.

  2. Verb (Intransitive):

    • To disperse and vanish: To become scattered and disappear, often gradually.
    • To indulge in a life of pleasure, especially involving intemperance: To live in a way that wastes one's resources or health through excessive pleasure-seeking.
Examples of Usage
  • Verb (Transitive):
    • The wind helped to dissipate the morning fog.
    • He managed to dissipate his family's fortune within a few years.
  • Verb (Intransitive):
    • The storm clouds began to dissipate by afternoon.
    • After inheriting the money, he chose to dissipate rather than invest it.
Advanced Usage
  • "to dissipate energy/heat": In physics, to cause energy or heat to disperse and be lost, often as a less useful form like thermal energy.
    • The radiator's job is to dissipate heat from the engine.
  • "to dissipate doubts/fears": To make worries or uncertainties disappear.
    • Her clear explanation helped to dissipate our concerns.
Variants and Related Words
  • Dissipated (Adjective): Characterized by or showing the effects of excessive indulgence in pleasure, especially alcohol.
    • He led a dissipated lifestyle in his youth.
  • Dissipation (Noun): The act or process of dissipating; wasteful expenditure; dissolute living.
    • The dissipation of the smoke took hours.
    • His wealth was lost through dissipation.
Synonyms
  • Disperse (for scattering)
  • Squander or Fritter away (for wasting)
  • Evaporate or Vanish (for disappearing)
Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Dissipate" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. Its meanings are typically expressed by the verb alone or with prepositions like "into.") - The concept of scattering is often captured by phrases like "dissipate into". - The protesters eventually dissipated into the side streets.

Related Idioms
  • "To dissipate one's energies": To waste one's effort or focus on too many different things.
    • Trying to manage five projects at once will only dissipate your energies.
dissipate

The morning fog begins to dissipate over the lake.

Verb
  1. live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
  2. spend frivolously and unwisely
    • Fritter away one's inheritance
  3. move away from each other;
    • The crowds dispersed
    • The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached
  4. to cause to separate and go in different directions
    • She waved her hand and scattered the crowds

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