dissipate
verb /ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/
/ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they dissipate | /ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/ /ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/ |
| he / she / it dissipates | /ˈdɪsɪpeɪts/ /ˈdɪsɪpeɪts/ |
| past simple dissipated | /ˈdɪsɪpeɪtɪd/ /ˈdɪsɪpeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle dissipated | /ˈdɪsɪpeɪtɪd/ /ˈdɪsɪpeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form dissipating | /ˈdɪsɪpeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈdɪsɪpeɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to gradually become or make something become weaker until it disappears
- Eventually, his anger dissipated.
- dissipate something Her laughter soon dissipated the tension in the air.
- [transitive] dissipate something to waste something, such as time or money, especially by not planning the best way of using it synonym squander
- She was determined to achieve results and not to dissipate her energies.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin dissipat- ‘scattered’, from the verb dissipare, from dis- ‘apart, widely’ + supare ‘to throw’.