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dissipated

/ˈdɪsɪpeɪtɪd/

dissipated is the simple past and past participle of dissipate.

Meaning of dissipate

Verb

dissipate (third-person singular simple present dissipates, present participle dissipating, simple past and past participle dissipated)

  1. (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
    • August 1773, James Cook, journal entry
      I soon dissipated his fears.
  2. (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
    • The vast wealth […] was in three years dissipated.1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]
  3. (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
  4. To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
    • The traction motors serve as generators when dynamic braking is used, the generated output being dissipated in fan-cooled resistance banks mounted in a removable roof section.1960 April, “English Electric diesels for the Sudan Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 218
  5. (colloquial, dated, intransitive) To be dissolute in conduct.

See all 6 meanings of dissipate

Adjective

dissipated

  1. Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure.
    • He recalled his dissipated youth spent in nightclubs and bars.
    • 'His character is now before you — expensive, dissipated, and worse than both. […]'1811, Jane Austen, chapter 31, in Sense and Sensibility

Synonyms of dissipated

Words formed from dissipated

Questions about dissipated

What does dissipated mean?
Dissipated means wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure.
What is dissipated the simple past and past participle of?
Dissipated is the simple past and past participle of dissipate.
What part of speech is dissipated?
Dissipated is an adjective.
How do you pronounce dissipated?
Dissipated is pronounced /ˈdɪsɪpeɪtɪd/.

Words near dissipated in the dictionary

  1. dissings
  2. dissipable
  3. dissipatability
  4. dissipatable
  5. dissipate
  6. dissipated
  7. dissipatedly
  8. dissipatedness
  9. dissipater
  10. dissipaters
  11. dissipates

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