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dissipate

Syllabification: (dis·si·pate)

Definition of dissipate

1 [no object] disperse or scatter:the cloud of smoke dissipated
(with reference to a feeling or other intangible thing) disappear or cause to disappear: [no object]:the concern she’d felt for him had wholly dissipated [with object]:he wanted to dissipate his anger

2 [with object] squander or fritter away (money, energy, or resources):he had dissipated his entire fortune
(usually be dissipated) Physics cause (energy) to be lost, typically by converting it to heat.

Derivatives

late Middle English: from Latin dissipat- 'scattered', from the verb dissipare, from dis- 'apart, widely' + supare 'to throw'

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