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dissipate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/

Etymology

The verb is first attested in 1425, in Middle English, the adjective from 1606 to 1765; from Middle English dissipaten, from Latin dissipātus, perfect passive participle of dissipō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), also written dissupō (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supō (“to throw”). Doublet of dissipe (“to dissipate”), now obsolete.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) dissipated

Forms

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most dissipate Degree=Sup lexicographic
more dissipate Degree=Cmp lexicographic

wikipedia: Middle English

dissipate en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Canada) audio
  • /ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/

Etymology

The verb is first attested in 1425, in Middle English, the adjective from 1606 to 1765; from Middle English dissipaten, from Latin dissipātus, perfect passive participle of dissipō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), also written dissupō (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supō (“to throw”). Doublet of dissipe (“to dissipate”), now obsolete.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
    • August 1773, James Cook, journal entry I soon dissipated his fears.
    • The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. 1817, William Hazlitt, The Round Table:
  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, […]:
    • 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. 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited:
    • If he prefers the bar he can exchange views with a Major de Wildman of Lord knew whose army, who calls himself King Farouk's equerry and claims to have a private telephone link to Cairo so that he can report the winning numbers and take royal orders inspired by soothsayers on how to dissipate the wealth of Egypt. 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
  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:
    • Regenerative braking is retained. Like rheostatic braking, this uses the traction motors to provide a braking effort, but the current developed is fed back into the overhead catenary rather than dissipated through resistance banks. 2023 July 26, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 54:
  5. (colloquial, dated, intransitive) To be dissolute in conduct.

Forms

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dissipates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
dissipating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dissipated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dissipated Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

dissipater · dissipator · dissipatory

Relateds

dissipation

Translations (58)

pl rozpraszać się (disperse) · es disipar (to use up or waste) · de zerteilen (to drive away) · pl zmarnować (to use up or waste) · pl rozwiać się (to vanish) · pl rozproszyć (to drive away) · de verbrauchen (to use up or waste) · io disipar (to use up or waste) · mi memeha (to vanish) · nl verkwisten (to use up or waste) · sv skingra (to vanish) · bg разсейвам (to drive away) · de verschwenden (to use up or waste) · hy ցրել (to drive away) · de zersplittern (to drive away) · de abbauen (to drive away) · de sich zerstreuen (to vanish) · de dissipieren (to drive away) · pl marnować (to use up or waste) · de aufbrauchen (to use up or waste) · de verscheuchen (to drive away) · pl trwonić (to use up or waste) · de vergeuden (to use up or waste) · ca dissipar (to drive away) · es disiparse (to vanish) · de ableiten (to use up or waste) · pl rozpraszać (to drive away) · es disipar (to drive away) · ga scaip (to use up or waste) · de zerstreuen (to drive away) · nl verspillen (to use up or waste) · pl tracić (to use up or waste) · bg пропилявам (to use up or waste) · pl stracić (to use up or waste) · de abbauen (to use up or waste) · cs rozptýlit (to drive away) · it dissipare (to drive away) · de verschwinden (to vanish) · de abführen (to vanish) · nl verdwijnen (to vanish) · pl roztrwaniać (to use up or waste) · pl rozejść się (disperse) · el διαχέω (to use up or waste) · de lösen (to drive away) · de verschleudern (to use up or waste) · de auflösen (to use up or waste) · de sich zerteilen (to vanish) · pl rozwiewać się (to vanish) · nl verdrijven (to drive away) · de verprassen (to use up or waste) · nl verbruiken (to use up or waste) · bg разпръсквам (to drive away) · de verzetteln (to use up or waste) · de verflüchtigen (to vanish) · pl rozchodzić się (disperse) · de sich auflösen (to vanish) · pl roztrwonić (to use up or waste) · pl rozproszyć się (disperse)

wikipedia: Middle English