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Dissipated   /dˈɪsəpˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
verb
dissipate  v. t.  (past & past part. dissipated; pres. part. dissipating)  
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. "Dissipated those foggy mists of error." "I soon dissipated his fears." "The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy."
2.
To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. "The vast wealth... was in three years dissipated."
Synonyms: To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish.



Dissipate  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.
2.
To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.



adjective
Dissipated  adj.  
1.
Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth."
2.
Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. "A life irregular and dissipated."






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"Dissipated" Quotes from Famous Books



... relations of her mother's; everybody in the neighbourhood is talking of her good-luck, and saying what a fortune she will turn out. I only hope she will be happy, and not be thrown away upon some one unworthy of her, like her poor cousin; for it seems young Mr. Taylor is very dissipated." ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper

... again; and Comrade Meissner dissipated his dream by replying that she had gone off to work for an organization in New York which was agitating for humane treatment for "conscientious objectors". Meissner hunted up the pamphlet published by this organization, telling most ...
— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair

... night from the great rarification of the atmosphere, &c. He joined us during dinner, just in time for a triumph of a plum pudding which our cook had unexpectedly produced, and his heart was so gladdened and expanded by either the suet, the raisins, or the brandy, that he chatted away until the dissipated mountain hour of eleven o'clock, when we sent him off to bed, much pleased with his entertainment, and again reassured, at least for a time, of the continued existence, not only of white men in the world, but of their plum puddings. Among other ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight

... of laughter it seemed that all embarrassment on the part of the natives had been dissipated. Those nearest us insisted on patting our stomachs gently, at the same time uttering a soft, crooning "soo-soo," [Footnote: This same sound is used by the natives of Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, when calming their horses.] which it was obviously the proper thing to return, which ...
— The Cruise of the Kawa • Walter E. Traprock

... was at the period of this epistle assistant to Wodrow, minister of Tarbolton: he was a good preacher, a moderate man in matters of discipline, and an intimate of the Coilsfield Montgomerys. His dependent condition depressed his spirits: he grew dissipated; and finally, it is said, enlisted as a common soldier, and died in ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham


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