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dissipate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dissipatus, past participle of dissipare, also written dissupare (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supare (“to throw”), also in comp. insipare (“to throw into”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?s?pe?t/
Verb
dissipate (third-person singular simple present dissipates, present participle dissipating, simple past and past participle dissipated)
- (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
- August 1773, James Cook, journal entry
- I soon dissipated his fears.
- 1817, William Hazlitt, The Round Table
- The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.
- August 1773, James Cook, journal entry
- (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
- 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation
- The vast wealth […] was in three years dissipated.
- 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited
- So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word "dissipate"—to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something.
- 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation
- (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
- (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
- (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To be dissolute in conduct.
Related terms
- dissipation
Translations
Further reading
- dissipate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- dissipate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “dissipate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Italian
Verb
dissipate
- second-person plural present indicative of dissipare
- second-person plural imperative of dissipare
- feminine plural of dissipato
Latin
Verb
dissip?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of dissip?
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dispurse
English
Etymology
dis- +? purse
Verb
dispurse (third-person singular simple present dispurses, present participle dispursing, simple past and past participle dispursed)
- Obsolete form of disburse.
Anagrams
- prusside, suspired
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