adj
Meaning 1
dissipated
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dissipate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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verb
Meaning 2
To drive away, disperse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- August 1773, James Cook, journal entry I soon dissipated his fears.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To use up or waste; squander.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 4
To vanish by dispersion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 6
To be dissolute in conduct.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, dated, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
spend frivolously and unwisely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Fritter away one's inheritance
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fritter, frivol away, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consume, squander, waste, ware
verb
Meaning 8
move away from each other;
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The crowds dispersed
- The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: separate, part, split
Narrower terms: aerosolize, aerosolise, break, volley
verb
Meaning 9
to cause to separate and go in different directions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She waved her hand and scattered the crowds
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disperse, dispel, break up, scatter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: separate, divide
Narrower terms: disband
verb
Meaning 10
live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: live
History
Etymology
The verb is first attested in 1425, in Middle English, the adjective from 1606 to 1765; from Middle English dissipaten, from Latin dissipātus, perfect passive participle of dissipō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), also written dissupō (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supō (“to throw”). Doublet of dissipe (“to dissipate”), now obsolete.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ցրել (cʻrel) — to drive away
- Bulgarian: разсейвам (razsejvam) — to drive away
- Bulgarian: разпръсквам (razprǎskvam) — to drive away
- Catalan: dissipar — to drive away
- Czech: rozptýlit — to drive away
- Dutch: verdrijven — to drive away
- German: zerstreuen — to drive away
- German: zerteilen — to drive away
- German: verscheuchen — to drive away
- German: lösen — to drive away
- German: abbauen — to drive away
- German: zersplittern — to drive away
- German: dissipieren — to drive away
- Italian: dissipare — to drive away
- Spanish: disipar — to drive away
- Bulgarian: пропилявам (propiljavam) — to use up or waste
- Dutch: verbruiken — to use up or waste
- Dutch: verspillen — to use up or waste
- Dutch: verkwisten — to use up or waste
- German: aufbrauchen — to use up or waste
- German: verbrauchen — to use up or waste
- German: abbauen — to use up or waste
- German: auflösen — to use up or waste
- German: verschwenden — to use up or waste
- German: vergeuden — to use up or waste
- German: ableiten — to use up or waste
- German: verprassen — to use up or waste
- German: verzetteln — to use up or waste
- German: verschleudern — to use up or waste
- Greek: διαχέω (diachéo) — to use up or waste
- Ido: disipar — to use up or waste
- Irish: scaip — to use up or waste
- Spanish: disipar — to use up or waste
- Dutch: verdwijnen — to vanish
- German: verschwinden — to vanish
- German: abführen — to vanish
- German: verflüchtigen — to vanish
- German: sich auflösen — to vanish
- German: sich zerteilen — to vanish
- German: sich zerstreuen — to vanish
- Māori: memeha — to vanish
- Spanish: disiparse — to vanish
- Swedish: skingra — to vanish