Dissipate

Definition: Dissipate

Dissipate

Verb

1. To cause to separate and go in different directions, of crowds, for example; "She waved her hand and scattered the crows.".

2. Move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";.

3. Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance".

Date "dissipate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Dissipate

Synonyms: break up (v), dispel (v), disperse (v), fool (v), fool away (v), fritter (v), fritter away (v), frivol away (v), scatter (v), shoot (v), spread out (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Destruction	Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.
Prodigality	Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dissipate

English words defined with "dissipate": Dissipating, Dissipative ♦ enlightening ♦ informative, instructive ♦ Overblow ♦ To make away with. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dissipate": baffle piers, baffle wall, blocks, braking ellipses ♦ control blocks ♦ floor blocks, friction blocks, fuel burn-out ♦ heat slug, high-active, highly radioactive ♦ loose rot ♦ oleo leg, oleo strut ♦ Popcorn Convection ♦ Single Electron Tunneling, Splitting Storm, steerable shock absorber, stilling basin, stilling pond, stilling pool. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Dissipate" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (circulate, destroy completely, disperse, dissipate, scatter, squander).

Domain	Title
Books	Soul Mates Dissipate (reference) Soulmates Dissipate (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption
	Explode; explosion; disappear; vanish; diffuse; dissipate; dissipating; diffusing; .
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Author	Quotation
Jean De La Bruyere	Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	A breath of air, coming through the broken square, helped to dissipate the charcoal odour and to conceal the furnace.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		For some patients, symptoms dissipate after a few weeks of treatment. (references)
		The acute effects of nicotine dissipate in a few minutes, causing the smoker to continue dosing frequently throughout the day to maintain the drug's pleasurable effects and prevent withdrawal. (references)
Economic History	Indonesia	However, that confidence could quickly dissipate without strong political leadership and a credible economic team committed to real economic reform. (references)
Political Rights	Pakistan	Critics of the plan claimed that the Government hopes to use local elections to dissipate pressure for a return to democracy at the national level. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Dissipate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 82.61% of the time. "Dissipate" is used about 92 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	82.61%	76	38,217
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.3%	15	90,616
Adjective (general or positive)	1.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	92	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "dissipate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		davaritem, davarit, zhduket (disperse, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, fade, flee, vanish), tret (assimilate, cut, dissolve, lose, macerate, melt, thaw), shpërndahem (break up, disband, disperse, grow dim, lift, outreach, reach, scatter, spread, spread out, straggle, thin), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), jepem pas qejfeve, harxhoj (consume, eat, expend, expense, finish, fritter, invest, melt, outlay, scatter, skittle away, spend, squander, trifle away, use up). (various references)

Arabic		‏تبدد (clear, death, dispersal, dispersion, fly, go to waste, recede, tarnish), ‏إنقشع (clear, lift, uncloud), ‏إنغمس في الملذات (have one's fling), ‏أنفق بحماقة, ‏أسرف في الشراب (fuddle, guzzle, soak, swill), ‏شتت (disperse, squander), ‏بذر (blow, disseminate, drill, fritter, inseminate, run through, sow, sowing, spend, squander, waste), ‏بدد (burn, dally, dawdle, devour, disperse, fool, fritter, melt, resolve, scatter, slattern, spend, spoil, squander, throwaway, waste). (various references)

Bulgarian		разсейвам (dispel, disperse, distract, illumine, lay, put off, quell, resolve, satisfy, scatter), разпръсквам се (disband, disperse, scatter), водя разгулен живот (racket), прахосвам (dilapidate, lavish, revel away, skittle, squander, throw around, trifle away, waste), изчезвам (abscond, clear out, disappear, evanesce, evanish, fall away, go, melt away, mosey, pass, pass away, pass off, shrink away, sweep away, tail, vanish, waste, wear out, whirl away, work off). (various references)

Chinese		消散 (Dissipating, scatter). (various references)

Czech		rozptýlit (amuse, banish, diffuse, dispel, disperse, distract, divert, resolve, strew), promarnit (dawdle away, fritter away, squander, throw away, throw up, trifle away, waste). (various references)

Danish		kimene udvikler sig med en hastighed, der afhaenger af muligheden for bortledning af omdannelsesvarmen (the nuclei grow ata rate depending on the ability of the system to dissipate the heat of transformation). (various references)

Dutch		de kiemen groeien met een snelheid die afhankelijk is van de mogelijkheid om de transformatiewarmte af te voeren (the nuclei grow ata rate depending on the ability of the system to dissipate the heat of transformation). (various references)

Farsi		پراکندگی کردن , اسراف کردن (Lavish), ازهم پاشیدن (Burst, Decompose, Disintegrate). (various references)

Finnish		hajottaa voimiaan (dissipate one's strength). (various references)

French		disperser (disband, disintegrate, disperse, distribute, disturb, divide), dilapider, se dissiper, se disperser (disband, disperse), s'évanouir (disappear, dissolve), gaspiller, absorber. (various references)

German		zerstreuen (abstract, allay, amuse, charm away, diffuse, dispel, disperse, disseminate, distract, divert, entertain, lay, lull, resolve, scatter, sow, to allay, to disperse, to scatter), zersplittern (fragment, shatter, splinter, split up, squander), verzetteln (catalogue, fritter, fritter away, to dissipate, to fritter, waste), verschwenden (lavish, misapply, squander, throw away, to dissipate, to lavish, to squander, to waste, waste), absorbieren (absorb, occlude, to absorb). (various references)

Greek		σπαταλώ (consume, fritter, squander, throw about, waste), διώχνω (dismiss, drive away, drive off, drive out, turn out), διασκορπίζω (disband, dispel, disperse, scatter), διαλύω (dilute, disassemble, disband, dismount, dissolve, liquidate, macerate, take apart). (various references)

Hebrew		למזמז (dwindle, flirt, neck, soften), לפזר (diffuse, disband, disperse, dissolve, scatter, sow, spatter, spread, strew), ל�"תפזר (disperse, scatter), ל�"ת�"ולל (get out of hand, go to town, racket, revel, roister, skylark), לבזבז (muddle, spend, spoil, squander, waste). (various references)

Hungarian		szétszór (disject, disperse, scatter, to break down, to diffuse, to disperse, to disseminate, to dissipate, to distribute, to fritter away, to rout), elherdál (cast away, squander, to blue, to cast away, to dissipate, to fritter away, to frivol away, to piss away, to squander). (various references)

Indonesian		meresap (become absorbed, encroach, infiltrate, ooze out, penetrate), menghamburkan (scatter). (various references)

Italian		dissolvere (disperse, dissolve, fade away), dissiparsi, dissipare (consume, dispel, disperse, drive away, misspend, squander, waste), disperdere (disband, dispel, disperse, to scatter). (various references)

Korean		방탕하십시�". (various references)

Manx		stroie (annihilate, destroy, dissipation, kill off, put down, waste, waste wealth), skeaylley (bestrew, breed, cast loose, demobilization, diffract, diffuse, diffusion, disband, discharge, dismiss, dispel, disseminate, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, draw apart, drop away, leakage, liquidate, looseness, release, resolution, resolve, run out, scatter, scattering, scramble, slacken, slackening, slip, spread, spreading, spring, sprinkle, sprinkling, undoing, unfix, unfurl, unfurling), lheie (assimilation, blow, blow of fuse, blow out, blowing, digest, disappear, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, fuse, liquefaction, liquefy; digestion, melting, smelt, smelting, soften), jummal (dissipation, fritter, squander, squanderer, waste, wastefulness). (various references)

Norwegian		spre (diffuse, dispel, disperse), ødsle. (various references)

Pig Latin		issipateday

Portuguese		dissipar (consume, die away, dispel all doubts, disperse, evanescence, fritter, frivol, meltdown, overblow, run to waste, squander), dissimulador (dissembler), dispersar (break up, disband, disject, dismiss, dispel, disperse, disposed, distract, drive off, scatter). (various references)

Romanian		duce o viaţã desfrânatã, spulbera (depolarize, dispel, kill, scatter), se risipi (drift apart, melt away, scatter, waste, work off), se împrãştia (blow away, break, break up, disband, lift, scatter, shrink away, spill, thin), risipi (broadcast, cast away, chase, chuck away, clear, consume, crumble, disappear, dispel, disperse, quiet, remove, repel, riot, scatter, settle, solve, spend, sprinkle, squander, strew, throw away, vanish, waste), irosi (cast away, consume, fiddle, idle, muddle away, spend, squander, waste), împrãştia (bestrew, break, diffuse, dispel, disperse, disseminate, distribute, effuse, exude, fling, propagate, scatter, shoot out, spill, split up, spread, sprinkle, straggle, strew, throw about, vanish). (various references)

Russian		рассеивать (diffuse, disject, dispel, disperse, scatter). (various references)

Scottish		stròidh (waste). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rasturiti (disperse, resolve, scatter), proćerdati (run through, squander, waste). (various references)

Spanish		disipar (clear up, destroy, disband, disintegrate, dispel, disperse, dissolve, remove, scatter, settle), desvanecer (dispel), desperdiciar (misspend, throw away, trifle away, waste), derrochar (throw away, waste), hacer disipación. (various references)

Swedish		slösa bort (blue, fritter away, frivol away, idle away, loaf away, misspend, sport away, squander, squnder), skingra (disband, dispel, disperse, dissolve, resolve, satisfy), leva lättsinnigt, förslösa (misspend, trifle away, waste), förjaga (chase away, dispel, drive away, expel). (various references)

Turkish		dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, disrupt, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), yok etmek (charm away, clear off, cut off, cut up, dispose of, dissolve, do away with, efface, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, make away with, shatter, spirit away, spirit off, sponge out, stamp, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out), yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, divulge, emit, evolve, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), gidermek (allay, appease, avert, clear, dispel, disperse, efface, eliminate, fulfil, fulfill, gratify, iron out, obviate, quench, remove, repair, resolve, satisfy, slake, smooth away, smooth out, supply), boşa harcamak (cast away, chuck away, fling away, footle, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, idle, idle away, lavish, misapply, misspend, pass away, pour down the drain, scatter, squander, squander away, throw away, throw to the dogs, trifle away, waste), çarçur etmek (blow, blue, cast away, pour down the drain, squander, trifle away, waste). (various references)

Ukrainian		розсіювати (flecker, scatter, squander), розкладати (analyse, analyze, contaminate, dissolve, resolve, set out, spread), марнувати (go to waste, trifle away, waste), зникати (come off, die, die down, disappear, dispel, evanish, go out of being, ooze, pass away, pass off, pass out, peter out, vanish, walk, wan, wear away). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	discedant, discedas, discedat, discede, discedebant, discedebat, discedendi, discedens, discedensque, discedent, discedentes, discedere, discederent, discederet, discedet, discedimus, discedit, discedite, discessere, discesseris, discesserit, discesserunt, discessissent, discessisset, discessit, dissipa, dissipabant, dissipabis, dissipabit, dissipabitur, dissipabo, dissipabunt, dissipabuntur, dissipans, dissipant, dissipantes, dissipantur, dissipare, dissiparem, dissipasset, dissipasti, dissipat, dissipata, dissipatae, dissipatam, dissipatarum, dissipatas, dissipate, dissipati, dissipatum, dissipatus, dissipaverint, dissipaverunt, dissipavi, dissipavit, dissipemus, dissipentur, dissipes, dissipet. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Jeremiah Chapter 50, Verse 27
Latin	405	Vulgate	Dissipate universos fortes eius descendant in occisionem vae eis quia venit dies eorum tempus visitationis eorum
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Scatereth alle his stronge men, come thei doun in to slayter; wo to them, for comen is the dai of hem, tyme of ther visiting.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
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Language	Jeremiah Chapter 50, Verse 27
Cebuano	Pamatya ang tanan niyang mga toro nga vaca: paadtoa sila sa ihawan: alaut sila! kay ang ialng adlaw miabut na, ang panahon sa pagdu-aw kanila.
Croatian	Pokoljite svu junad njegovu, u klaonicu neka siðu! Jao njima, došao je njihov dan, vrijeme kazne njihove!
Danish	ødelæg alle dets Okser, før dem ned til Slagtning! Ve dem, deres Dag er kommet, Hjemsøgelsens Tid.
Dutch	Doodt met het zwaard al haar varren, laat ze afgaan ter slachting; wee over hen, want hun dag is gekomen, de tijd hunner bezoeking!
Finnish	Hävittäkää kaikki sen härät, astukoot ne teurastettaviksi. Voi heitä! Sillä heidän päivänsä on tullut, heidän rangaistuksensa aika.
French	Tuez tous ses taureaux, qu`on les égorge! Malheur � eux! car leur jour est arrivé, Le temps de leur châtiment.
German	Erwürgt alle ihre Rinder, führt sie hinab zu Schlachtbank! Weh ihnen! denn der Tag ist gekommen, die Zeit ihrer Heimsuchung.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Bunuhlah semua tentaranya! Tewaskan mereka! Celakalah bangsa Babel! Sudah tiba waktunya mereka dihukum!"
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bunuhlah olehmu dengan pedang akan segala lembu mudanya, bawalah turun akan dia kepada pembantaian; wai bagi mereka itu, karena sudah sampai harinya dan masa balasannya.
Italian	Uccidete tutti i suoi tori, scendano al macello. Guai a loro, perché è giunto il loro giorno, il tempo del loro castigo!
Maori	Patua ana puru katoa; tukua ratou kia haere ki raro ki te patunga: aue, te mate mo ratou! kua tae mai hoki to ratou ra, te wa e whiua ai ratou.
Norwegian	Drep alle dets okser, la dem stige ned for å slaktes! Ve over dem! For deres dag er kommet, deres hjemsøkelses tid. # < d.e. dets veldige menn.>
Portuguese	Matai a todos os seus novilhos, desçam ao degoladouro; ai deles! porque é chegado o seu dia, o tempo da sua punição.
Rumanian	Ucideyi -i toyi taurii wi junghiayi -i! Vai de ei! Cqci le -a venit ziua, vremea pedepsirii lor!
Russian	х�'ЙЧБКФЕ ЧУЕИ ЧПМПЧ ЕЕ, � ХУФШ Й�"ХФ ОБ ЪБЛМБОЙЕ; ЗПТЕ ЙН! Й�'П � ТЙЫЕМ �"ЕОШ ЙИ, ЧТЕНС � ПУЕЭЕОЙС ЙИ.
Spanish	Destruid todos sus toros. ¡Que desciendan al matadero! ¡Ay de ellos! Porque ha venido su día, el tiempo de su castigo.
Swedish	Nedgören alla dess tjurar, fören dem ned till att slaktas. Ve dem, ty deras dag har kommit, deras hemsökelses tid!
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "dissipate": dissipated, dissipatedly, dissipatedness, dissipatednesses, dissipater, dissipaters, dissipates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dissipate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desiate, desipate, dessimate, dessipate, disapase, disapate, discrimate, disepate, disimpact, disipate, dissapate, dissiapte, dissimate, dissipativ, dissipiate, dissipute. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dissipate" (pronounced di"supā't)
6	-i" s u p ā' t	anticipate, participate.
5	-s u p ā' t	emancipate.
4	-u p ā' t	constipate, syncopate.
3	-p ā' t	extirpate.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-p-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: epitasis.
	-2 letters: apsides, daisies, disseat, pasties, patsies, petsais, tapises.
	-3 letters: adepts, asides, daises, dassie, deists, desist, diesis, dipsas, passed, pasted, pastes, pastie, pastis, petsai, pietas, pissed, pistes, pitied, pities, sadist, sepias, siesta, spades, spaits, spates, spited, spites, stades, stapes, steads, stiped, stipes, tassie, teiids, tidies, tsades, tsadis.
	-4 letters: adept, adits, aides, apses, apsis, aside.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-p-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: dissipated, dissipater, dissipates, sapidities.
	+2 letters: adiposities, disparities, dissipaters, dissipative, inspissated, parasitised, pediatrists.
	+3 letters: depositaries, diapositives, dipeptidases, dispensation, dissipatedly, hospitalised.
	+4 letters: despoliations, dispassionate, dispensations, parasiticides, pedestrianism, radioisotopes, sophisticated, stipendiaries.
	+5 letters: antidepression, appendicitises, dispensability, dispensational, dispensatories, dissipatedness, endoparasitism, pedestrianisms, superadditions.
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