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- to spend or use wastefully or extravagantly; squander; deplete: to dissipate one's talents; to dissipate a fortune on high living.
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The meaning of DISSIPATE is to break up and drive off. How to use dissipate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Dissipate.
verb (used with object) , dis·si·pat·ed, dis·si·pat·ing. to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel. Antonyms: unite. to spend or use wastefully or extravagantly; squander; deplete: to dissipate one's talents; to dissipate a fortune on high living.
to (cause to) gradually disappear or waste: The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere. His anger dissipated as the situation became clear. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Wasting. boondoggle. dissipation. down the drain idiom. flabbily. fritter. piss. prodigality. prodigally. profligacy. profligate. spendthrift.
to disappear gradually, or to cause something to disappear gradually: [ T ] It took months of effort to dissipate the oil spill in the North Sea. dissipation. noun [ U ] us / ˌdɪs·əˈpeɪ·ʃən / (Definition of dissipate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
When someone dissipates money, time, or effort, they waste it in a foolish way. [formal] He is dissipating his time and energy on too many different things. [VERB noun] Her father had dissipated her inheritance. [VERB noun] Synonyms: squander, spend, waste, consume More Synonyms of dissipate.
Dissipate definition: To cause to lose (energy, such as heat) irreversibly.
To dissipate is to disperse or fade away — as a bad smell will dissipate (usually) if you wait long enough. Dissipate can also mean “spend or use wastefully.” If you win the lottery, you might suddenly find yourself with a group of new friends encouraging you to dissipate your money (on them).
