dissipate
verb (used with object)
to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
is dissipating
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present progressiveof dissipate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It’s another sign of how a vast web of policies designed to limit the spread of the virus is dissipating.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties saw 2 to 4 inches of rainfall, but all of that is dissipating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
Meanwhile, their tolerance for dissent, even in their own ranks, is dissipating.
From BBC ● May 17, 2022
European solidarity is dissipating as all countries scramble to find national responses to the virus.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2020
Those, however, who think that science is dissipating religious beliefs and sentiments seem unaware that whatever of mystery is taken from the old interpretation is added to the new.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
