dissipate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dissipate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for dissipate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dissipate v to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds" Synonym(s): disperse, dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"; Synonym(s): disperse, dissipate, scatter, spread out spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" Synonym(s): fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dissipate \Dis"si*pate\, v. i. 1. 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. 2. To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dissipate \Dis"sipate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dissipated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dissipating}.] [L. dissipatus, p. p. of dissipare; dis- + an obsolete verb sipare, supare. to throw.] 1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. --Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. --Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate* all intellectual energy. --Hazlitt. 2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. --Bp. Burnet. Syn: To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish.