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dissipater

dissipater is the alternative form of dissipator.

Meaning of dissipator

Noun

dissipator (plural dissipators)

  1. One who, or that which, dissipates something.
    • The Population Factor is a dissipator or swamper of the gain in per capita income and hence of the redressal of poverty to that degree.1991, Kedar Nath Prasad, India's Rural Problems, page 38

Forms of dissipater

pluraldissipaters

Origin of dissipater

From dissipate + -er.

Questions about dissipater

What is dissipater the alternative form of?
Dissipater is the alternative form of dissipator.

Words near dissipater in the dictionary

  1. dissipatable
  2. dissipate
  3. dissipated
  4. dissipatedly
  5. dissipatedness
  6. dissipater
  7. dissipaters
  8. dissipates
  9. dissipatest
  10. dissipateth
  11. dissipating

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