Dissipable(a.) Capable of being scattered or dissipated.
Dissipate(v. i.) To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.
Dissipate(v. i.) To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.
Dissipate(v. t.) To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.
Dissipate(v. t.) To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.
Dissipated(a.) Squandered; scattered.
Dissipated(a.) Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.
Dissipated(imp. & p. p.) of Dissipate
Dissipating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissipate
Dissipation(n.) The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
Dissipation(n.) A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
Dissipation(n.) A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
Dissipative(a.) Tending to dissipate.
Dissipativity(n.) The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.
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