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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.

The young men quickly dissipated their energy while they were running up the mountain in the winter.

To squander or spend wastefully.
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To scatter aimlessly or to squander one's energies.
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dissipated (adjective), more dissipated, most dissipated
1. Pertaining to spending too much money and time on physical pleasures which are not good for one's health: Ben had a dissipated habit of eating too much unhealthy food and not exercising his body; both of which resulted in his becoming extremely overweight.
2. A reference to wasting or squandering money by playing games of chance: Jan's husband usually spent dissipated time at the local casino whenever he received his working salary before going home.
Wasteful in the pursuit of pleasure.
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dissipate, dissipates; dissipated; dissipating
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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dissipated, more dissipated, most dissipated
Characterized by spending too much money and time on physical pleasures or being wasteful in the pursuit of pleasure. (1)
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