Definition of dissipate

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Dissipate (v. i.) 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..

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Melt :: Melt (v. i.) To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away..
Vanish :: Vanish (v. i.) To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land..
Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible..
Dissipated :: Dissipated (a.) Squandered; scattered.
Disperse :: Disperse (v. t.) To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors..
Evanesce :: Evanesce (v. i.) To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor..
Dissipated :: Dissipated (imp. & p. p.) of Dissipat.
Overblow :: Overblow (v. t.) To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind..
Dissipate :: Dissipate (v. t.) To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.
Dispel :: Dispel (v. t.) To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions..
Scatter :: Scatter (v. t.) To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.
Dissipativity :: Dissipativity (n.) The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.
Indissipable :: Indissipable (a.) Incapable o/ being dissipated.
Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation..
Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors.
Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.
Dissipate :: Dissipate (v. t.) To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.
Scattered :: Scattered (a.) Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread..
Dissipative :: Dissipative (a.) Tending to dissipate.
Gay :: Gay (superl.) Loose; dissipated; lewd.
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