dissipate

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.3.3 External links 2 Italian 2.1 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

< Latin dissipatus, pp. of dissipare, also written dissupare (“‘to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate’”) < dis- (“‘apart’”) + supare (“‘to throw’”), also in comp. insipare (“‘to throw into’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdɪsəpeɪt/, SAMPA: /"dIs@peIt/

[edit] Verb

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

1. To drive away, disperse.
2. To use up or waste.
   • 1931: F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited"

     So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word "dissipate"—to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something.

3. To vanish by dispersion.

[edit] Related terms

• dissipation

[edit] Translations

• French: dissiper (2,3)
• Ido: disipar (2), dispersar (3)
• Greek: διαχέω

[edit] External links

• dissipate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• dissipate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Verb

dissipate

1. Second-person plural present tense of dissipare.
2. Second-person plural imperative of dissipare.
3. Feminine plural of dissipato.