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Dissipate

verb

(past & past part. dissipated; pres. part. dissipating)

To cause to separate and go in different directions. Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, scatter.

Move away from each other. Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out. "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"

Spend frivolously and unwisely. Synonyms: fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot.

Live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption.

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"Dissipate" Quotes from Famous Books

... may remember, was a great favourite of yours; and I recollect you once remarked that if you were in an ill humour, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for the same reason that Ariosto gives concerning the beauty of Angelica—she looked so frank-hearted and happy. My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended. This benefit was fully repaid; ...

— Frankenstein - or The Modern Prometheus • Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

... endeavoring to dissipate the dejection of her friend by rallying her, as the young officer came to the door, on the evidently new conquest she had made. The Indian turned to look at the intruder upon his pleasant musings, when a "wah!" expressive of deep satisfaction escaped him, and at the same moment, ...

— Hardscrabble - The Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare • John Richardson

... a part of every natural creed— Instinctive teaching of another state: When manacles of earth are loosed and freed— Which Science vainly strives to dissipate. ...

— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies

... 'im, honey! The Ole Boy's in 'im. I know 'im; I've kep' my two eyes on 'im. For a mess er turnip-greens an' dumperlin's that man 'u'd do murder." The old man paused and looked all around, as if by that means to dissipate a suspicion that he was dreaming. "An' so Tuck missed ...

— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris

... men among the kindred of the Chia mansion, the half of whom were extravagant in their habits, so that great was, of course, his delight to frequent them. To-day, they would come together to drink wine; the next day to look at flowers. They even assembled to gamble, to dissipate and to go everywhere and anywhere; leading, with all their enticements, Hsueeh P'an so far astray, that he became far worse, by a hundred times, than he ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

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