dissipate

Pronunciation: /ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/

The English word “dissipate” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

To drive away, disperse.
To use up or waste; squander.
To vanish by dispersion.
To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
To be dissolute in conduct.

adjective

dissipated

Etymology

The verb is first attested in 1425, in Middle English, the adjective from 1606 to 1765; from Middle English dissipaten, from Latin dissipātus, perfect passive participle of dissipō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), also written dissupō (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supō (“to throw”). Doublet of dissipe…

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