Associations to the word «Dissipate»

Wiktionary

DISSIPATE, verb. To drive away, disperse.
DISSIPATE, verb. To use up or waste.
DISSIPATE, verb. To vanish by dispersion.

Dictionary definition

DISSIPATE, verb. To cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds".
DISSIPATE, verb. Move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";.
DISSIPATE, verb. Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance".
DISSIPATE, verb. Live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne