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