'Dissipate' definitions:

Definition of 'dissipate'

From: WordNet
verb
To cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds" [syn: disperse, dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter]
verb
Move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"; [syn: disperse, dissipate, scatter, spread out]
verb
Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away]
verb
Live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption

Definition of 'Dissipate'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'dissipate'

From: GCIDE
  • dissipate \dis"si*pate\ (d[i^]s"s[i^]*p[=a]t), 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Dissipated those foggy mists of error. --Selden. [1913 Webster]
  • I soon dissipated his fears. --Cook. [1913 Webster]
  • The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. [1913 Webster]
  • The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. --Bp. Burnet.
  • Syn: To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'dissipate'

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