Crossword clues for dissipated
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dissipate \dis"si*pate\ (d[i^]s"s[i^]*p[=a]t), 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.]
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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.
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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.
Dissipated \Dis"si*pa`ted\ (d[i^]s"s[i^]*p[=a]`t[e^]d), a.
Squandered; scattered. ``Dissipated wealth.''
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Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.
A life irregular and dissipated.
--Johnson.
Wiktionary
wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure. v
(en-past of: dissipate)
WordNet
adj. unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast]
preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies" [syn: betting, card-playing, gambling, sporting]
Usage examples of "dissipated".
Icefire dissipated, and the twisting coronal glow around the edge-effect airfoils faded away, and Melinda started breathing again as she looked it over.
The amnionic fluid dissipated around him and Shar, carrying away with it the suggestive odor of a bitter struggle against death.
This formidable league, however, the only one that appears in the two first centuries of the Imperial history, was entirely dissipated, without leaving any traces behind in Germany.
In 1821 he died, and my father succeeded him, and dissipated most of the money.
She was oddly reluctant to leave Dominick, but at least the tension she felt in his presence dissipated once he was out of sight.
Head Centre Stephens had placed in supreme charge of the affairs of the Fenian Brotherhood in America, was charged by Colonel Roberts and his colleagues with having dipped too deep into the treasury and by extravagance and other questionable methods dissipated the funds of the Brotherhood.
Diamandes entered with his cloak draped foppishly over his shoulders, gave offhand, sleepy, dissipated greetings and stared with his round eyes at the disturbed house.
Of the gases given off by explosives, those resulting from black powder are accompanied by considerable odor and smoke, and, consequently, the miners go back more slowly after the shots, allowing time for the gases to be dissipated by the ventilation.
Nathaniel George and Janet Helvetia would rest upon a seat, no living creature within sight, save perhaps a passing policeman or some dissipated cat.
One bad result proceeded from this friendly familiarity, that of establishing or originating the charge that Holbein, as a young man, at least, was coarse and dissipated in his habits.
But if NK-2 dissipated his strength by trying to control his host more specifically, he would lack the resources to change hosts later.
The waft of hyperexcited ions grew vaguer as the wind dissipated the discharge.
While Luis learned again to swallow and walk, while his body dissipated, the war soured against Germany.
The sufferings of others, whoever they might be, called forth her ready compassion, which dissipated at once every obscuring cloud to goodness, that passion or prejudice might have raised in her mind.
Athene and Sinon felt the gravity fade down to half a gee as the distortion field dissipated.