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Dissipate
ˈdɪsɪpeɪt
Dissipate definitions
verb
dissipate
dissipated
dissipates
dissipating
- (with reference to a feeling or emotion) disappear or cause to disappear
"the concern she'd felt for him had wholly dissipated"
- disperse or scatter
"the cloud of smoke dissipated"
- waste or fritter away (money, energy, or resources)
"he inherited, but then dissipated, his father's fortune"
- cause (energy) to be lost through its conversion to heat
"no power is dissipated in this sort of control element"