'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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablate,
- attenuate,
- be consumed,
- be gone,
- be promiscuous,
- blow,
- blow off,
- blunder away,
- break up,
- burn up,
- carouse,
- cast forth,
- cease,
- cease to be,
- cease to exist,
- chase women,
- clear away,
- come to naught,
- come to nothing,
- commit adultery,
- consume,
- crumble,
- debauch,
- decrease,
- dematerialize,
- depart,
- deplete,
- depreciate,
- die,
- die away,
- die out,
- diffuse,
- dilute,
- diminish,
- disappear,
- disintegrate,
- dispel,
- disperse,
- disseminate,
- dissolve,
- distribute,
- do a fade-out,
- drain,
- dribble away,
- drive away,
- dwindle,
- erode,
- evanesce,
- evaporate,
- exhaust,
- exit,
- fade,
- fade away,
- fade out,
- flee,
- fly,
- fool,
- fornicate,
- fritter away,
- gamble away,
- go,
- go away,
- go through,
- go to pot,
- go to seed,
- go to waste,
- grovel,
- hang the expense,
- hide,
- lavish,
- leak,
- leak away,
- leave no trace,
- leave the scene,
- live hard,
- make merry,
- melt,
- melt away,
- party,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass out,
- perish,
- peter out,
- philander,
- plunge into dissipation,
- rake,
- retire from sight,
- revel,
- roister,
- run riot,
- run through,
- run to seed,
- run to waste,
- scatter,
- seize the day,
- shrink,
- sink,
- sink away,
- slather,
- sleep around,
- sow,
- sow broadcast,
- spread out,
- squander,
- suffer an eclipse,
- swing,
- thin,
- thin out,
- throw away,
- throw money around,
- use up,
- vanish,
- vanish from sight,
- vaporize,
- volatilize,
- wallow,
- wanton,
- waste,
- waste away,
- wear,
- wear away,
- whore,
- womanize