dissipated
[dis-uh-pey-tid]
- indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute.
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Origin of dissipated
dissipate
[dis-uh-peyt]
- to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- to spend or use wastefully or extravagantly; squander; deplete: to dissipate one's talents; to dissipate a fortune on high living.
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- to become scattered or dispersed; be dispelled; disintegrate: The sun shone and the mist dissipated.
- to indulge in extravagant, intemperate, or dissolute pleasure.
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Origin of dissipate
Synonyms
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1, 3. unite.
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Examples from the Web for dissipated
Contemporary Examples
In some cases the cost can linger long after the pleasure has dissipated.
The High Cost of An Orgasm: Is Momentary Pleasure Worth a Lifetime of Regret?Aurora Snow
June 28, 2014
But the darkness that enveloped Don at the end of the season may not have dissipated just yet.
It is a product of the baby-boomer ethos, and if a sense of inevitability has dissipated, good riddance.
This dissipated as the anticipated quick revolt turned into an astonishingly brutal and prolonged war.
“This actually really surpassed my expectations,” Lawrence told us later on, well after the crowd had dissipated.
Historical Examples
His fingers had ruffled his hair into a dissipated untidiness.
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
He had a steady, blue eye and a dissipated, iron-gray mustache.
The Gentleman From IndianaBooth Tarkington
Then the fiery vapour was dissipated, and the sunset ended by fading away.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Your bottle is broken, and the material it contained is dissipated.
Jennie Baxter, JournalistRobert Barr
Wild, dissipated, reckless, he was dismissed from West Point.
Graded Poetry: Second YearVarious
dissipated
- indulging without restraint in the pursuit of pleasure; debauched
- wasted, scattered, or exhausted
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dissipate
- to exhaust or be exhausted by dispersion
- (tr) to scatter or break up
- (intr) to indulge in the pursuit of pleasure
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Word Origin
C15: from Latin dissipāre to disperse, from dis- 1 + supāre to throw
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Word Origin and History for dissipated
dissipate
v.
early 15c., from Latin dissipatus, past participle of dissipare "to spread abroad, scatter, disperse; squander, disintegrate," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + supare "to throw, scatter," from PIE *swep- "to throw, sling, cast" (cf. Lithuanian supu "to swing, rock," Old Church Slavonic supo "to strew"). Related: Dissipated; dissipates; dissipating.
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