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dissipate (verb), dissipates; dissipated; dissipating
1. To drive away or to cause something to spread out and to disappear: The sun dissipated the winter darkness.
2. To separate into parts and to vanish or go away almost to the point of completely passing out of sight: The wind finally dissipated the smoke that came from the brush fires.
3. To spend or to use all of something wastefully or to squander: Chuck's cousin dissipated the fortune that he inherited from his father in just a few years.
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2. To separate into parts and to vanish or go away almost to the point of completely passing out of sight: The wind finally dissipated the smoke that came from the brush fires.
3. To spend or to use all of something wastefully or to squander: Chuck's cousin dissipated the fortune that he inherited from his father in just a few years.
The young men quickly dissipated their energy while they were running up the mountain in the winter.
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“dissipates”
To separate into parts that disappear or go away almost to the point of disappearing; to spend or to use all of something wastefully or to squander it. (2)
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